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Newly Wedded

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While at the airport waiting for a flight that had been delayed, I decided to look around and observe my environment. Some people were engrossed with their electronic devices, some chatted away, some dozed off occasionally and some like myself looked around. Like a hub of activities. There was this young couple sitting very close to each other that I doubt if water could trickle down between them. They looked at each other admiringly with contentment like though they were the only ones in the entire lounge and they smiled at each other in a way that spelt ‘new’. I wanted a confirmation, you guessed right, I looked at the fingers and there the glistening bands rested on the marriage fingers. This moment, her hand rested on his shoulders the next, both hands were intertwined on her laps. On the same row with me, another couple with their teenage daughter sat. While the bespectacled husband read newspaper, the mother and daughter talked to each other once in a while. Nothi