Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. (Jhumpa Lahiri)

Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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