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Excerpts From Anindita

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“Oh my. This is so different from India! I wish I was back there now! Instead of this hideous apartment here in Brooklyn.” Anindita complains, eyeing the mold on the walls and the cockroaches crawling deviously around. She shivers as one particularly large one creeps up the carob colored stone walls. “And shouldn’t my roommate be here by now? I hate late people!!” “You think so, yes?” chirps a female voice with an accent- Swedish, maybe? Or Italian? Anindita’s heart jumps as she jerks her head around. There she is, looking shyly at her, Cate, her new roommate. Anindita blinks her hickory colored eyes rapidly, praying that Cate’s first impression of her is not that of a snarky one. She immediately thinks of saying that she was not that …show more content…

Now.” she says. Anindita nods, still trying to stifle her grin. For a split second there is a pause, and then Anindita introduces herself, as if starting all over. “Hi, Cate!” She plasters a huge but genuine smile on her face, and awkwardly shoots out a hand to Cate. “I’m Anindita! It’s so nice to meet you, finally!” She was literally screaming at her brain, Do not say anything about the rat, do not say anything about the rat!!! “Yes, isn’t it?” Cate smiles and twirls her hair with one hand as she shakes Anindita’s hand with the other. Her pale skin is flushed with exhilaration, and her juniper eyes are looking at Anindita with admiration and interest. Just when Anindita thinks that Cate is going to be one of those shy and mellow people with a powerful inner voice, except when they see rats, Cate bursts into an explosion of words. “I know, yes? I have never lived on my own before, have you? One time, my mother and father had to go away to help their friend who had lost everything in a fire, and I had to stay home alone with my brother Lucca. They were gone for almost four days!! It was quite scary, yes? But that is all. When I applied to New York University, I had no idea that I was going to get in, in fact, this is the only university I applied to in the US. All the others were in Milan, where I am from. Say, where are you from? India, yes? I love India, I have been there once, there were elephants roaming the beaches and it was just the …show more content…

But Anindita didn’t mind. In fact, she liked the talkative Cate better than the shy one. The things she said were actually quite

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