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In 2020, Sharmila Hiranand had a lot to look forward to. Her daughter Samantha was due to get married in Spain. It was going to be the first wedding in her nuclear family, and everyone was very excited. But COVID-19 threw a wrench in their plans like everyone else’s in the world. “Given the situation, we needed to postpone it hopefully for next year,” says Sharmila.
“It was a huge bummer because we had already booked the hotels and the flight, sent out the invitations, and pretty much everything had been set up.”
This story is from the September 2020 edition of Lifestyle Asia.
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