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The next afternoon was sweltering. Karthik arrived twenty minutes early, wearing a linen shirt he’d ironed twice. He held a small book of poems by Bharathiyar, their pre-arranged "signal." He scanned the crowd, his eyes darting between every woman walking past.

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As the stars began to peek through the city's haze, Karthik looked at his phone, then back at her. The digital world felt a million miles away.