He was Adonis to look at. His fair skin, sharp chiseled features, dark hair made him pure eye candy among girls. It was my weakness for fair skinned, bespectacled, intelligent looking men that landed me amidst his teenage fans.
It was at a party, after more than a decade that I recently met him. His grey hair now added to his charm. I kept admiring his looks and charms from corner of my eyes. Then the bomb was dropped from somewhere. I overheard that he has been married for a long time now. How can he marry without asking any of his fans? I kept thinking and biting my fingertips and lips alternately. I looked around for my childhood friends to share this tragic news.
But shock of the shocks was his wife, to whom he introduced me mid-way in the party. She was the most simple looking, wheatish complexioned girl, whom I thought was most unlikely to be his wife. But that was not all. It was when she stood up to meet me and together we moved chatting towards eateries that I observed she had polio and there was obvious limp while she walked.
She later told that he was her distant cousin and no one would agree marrying her because of her disability, when this teenage crush of mine stepped in and changed her life for ever and for good. She kept telling me how much he cares and loves her and all this when she had given up all hopes of leading a happily married life.Wasnt this man ashamed of his wife in public ? Why peer pressure didnt bother him ? I wondered.
In doing so he won my heart once more and even more regard and respect of his long train of admirers.
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