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my parents seemed as concerned that madhavi liked them as she did that they liked her.

i'm amused.

let's just hope her parents like me as much as my parents like her.

in yet another marathon phone call (my long distance girlfriend lives a mile away), we stumbled onto a new topic. we'd never talked about god before.

she doesn't believe in god and i do. except that we both believe pretty much the same thing, we just have different names for it.

the jewish sh'ma prayer goes: hear oh israel! the lord is god. the lord is one.

to me that has long meant that recognizing the unity, the singularity of the world is to recognize god. the lord is one. achieving that oneness, that is our lord.

listen up you! here's what's important: we're all in this together.