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As Good as A Kiss: A Train Journey

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  10 PM : Now, we were two on my seat. Me and a twenty-eight year old girl who has a stupid brother.  We started on very nicely and for the next few hours, we were just talking. Her struggles of life to essence of a job to my hair-fall to the nuances of our love life to our respective family members to the incompetency of Nitish Kumar as CM of Bihar. Everything. We talked about everything, even the way I approach a girl and why I should stop that ASAP. I remember the passage of time when we were talking about our definition of love as a non-toxic human beings, we both could see the enigmatic tortoise moon through our closed window. Straight out of a frame from some Basu Chatterjee movie. 7 PM ONWARDS: It's seven in the night and I have managed to board into a train which will lead me to the most polluted city of India. As of now, I'm standing near my berth and there are six people already. As an obvious passenger, I look back at my ticket in the phone to reconfirm my seat numbe