BONUS: The Prayer

Invisibilia

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🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Five years ago, Leena Sanzgiri was living her childhood dream... New York city apartment, job at Vogue, and a boyfriend she planned to marry. Until the July day she woke up in the hospital, and everything changed. Support for this episode provided by Charles Schwab: https://www.schwab.com/.

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1:01.1	We all have childhood memories that we turn our burner minds.
1:04.2	They're ones we love, ones we love, but can't seem to outrun.
1:08.1	Either way, these memories stay with us and shape us.
1:12.2	This next piece by writer Lena Sonskiri starts with one of those.
1:21.7	That's my dad, Suniel.
1:23.5	When I was a kid, he got up every day at 4.30am to do a Hindu prayer ritual called Pooja.
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