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Two people walking home together down a lit street at night

Stories

The distance didn't change.The worry did.

Sons and daughters in eleven countries, parents in towns most of them cannot get to twice a year. These are their words, lightly edited for length.

  • A mother holding her baby in the archway of a family house

    01London / Thrissur

    “My parents don't answer every call anymore. Now I don't worry.”

    Two missed calls used to mean a bad afternoon. Now I open one line before my first meeting and the rest of the day belongs to me again.

    Nikhil V.

  • A family sharing a long table outdoors in late afternoon light

    02Singapore / Lucknow

    “I stopped calling to check. I call to talk.”

    The checking used to eat the whole conversation. We spent ten minutes establishing that everything was fine and then hung up. Now we just talk.

    Sana K.

  • A man in profile, mostly in shadow, lit by a single window

    03Melbourne / Madurai

    “Appa said yes because nobody was watching him.”

    He refused a camera in the house for years, and he was right to. What changed his mind was that the video stays in his house. He shows people the box now.

    Meera J.

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