we're still here

A reader's tribute to and if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?

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We’re Still Here
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the house

Enter Maraiah's office, discover the objects she preserved, and look through Kali's room in 2001.

A wooden bedroom-study in late gold light: tall bookshelves above a lit glass cabinet, a white doorway, a painted desk with books, a lamp and a watch, a painting of mangoes, and capiz windows open onto a mango tree.A wooden bedroom at dusk: a carved bed with a notebook on the quilt, a steaming mug on the bedside table, a tall wardrobe, a table with a newspaper, a wallet and a watch, loafers under the bed, a bin, and capiz windows open onto a tree and a pink sky.