(Written in early April, 1998. I added this paragraph to the longer letter Anita wrote.)
Gary here.
Here’s a cute story. One of our wedding gifts in July of 1981 was a subscription to National Geographic. We have been receiving it ever since. By accident, all our past issues, neatly packed in a box, arrived in India. One day we were looking through them for articles about India. The July 1981 issue (the first one we received, published the month of our wedding) has an article about Bombay! Prophetic! Page 105 shows an aerial view of a major intersection about 5 minutes from our home and work.
The article is still fairly current even though it is 17 years old. That tells you something about India. Interestingly, the May 1997 issue on page 24-25 shows the same view of the same intersection at night but 16 years later. And in an amazing twist of irony, the February 1998 issue of National Geographic (the first one we received after arriving here in Bombay) has a story about the National Pike, U.S. Highway 40, with several pictures of Grantsville, Maryland (the highway runs smack dab through town). It contains photos of very familiar sights and even some kids our children knew when we lived there. We move to Bombay, India and Garrett County, Maryland suddenly becomes exotic!
