Marriages are fixed-n-made in heaven, they say. The adage appears coined to describe Aai- Papa's marriage. They were from two far flung places of Maharashtra. The only similarity between Pandharpur and Kolhapur was that both were major pilgrim places. Those days marriages mostly used to be fixed/arranged within the intimate circle of relatives/acquaintances. There surely was not any such connection between the Agnihotri's and Kulkarni's.
Wonder of wonders, neither had seen either before the actual ceremony. Too incredible to be true, it may appear now. Indeed it was so! Aai for sure saw Papa for the first time when she garlanded him. There is a vague possibility that, after the marriage was fixed, Aai was again asked to come to Kolhapur under some pretext or the other. Probably Papa might have seen her then, at least from a distance. Aai absolutely had no such opportunity.
What a complete faith in their parents they must have had! Wonder of wonders is that once the destiny thus broght them together, the shared fate was their unique creation. Marriage mattered a lot to them, they made it work despite all the differences. Now that neither is any more with us, their marriage matters because it has many an interesting missives for us. Hence these marriage matters on their wedding anniversary!
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