You may have typically heard in movies or learn in books that old flame can by no means be forgotten. True because the saying could also be, a gatekeeper from the haunted village of Rajasthan’s Kuldhara reunited together with his long-lost love after 50 years.
Within the 70s, a woman from Australia came around Rajasthan in India, and through her keep right here she fell in love with a gatekeeper. Nonetheless, quickly they parted methods because the lady left for her native place.
However this uncommon story of how they fell in love, obtained separated, after which obtained again after 50 years will depart you dumbstruck. A full anecdote has been given about this on the Fb web page of People of Bombay.
Let’s know the gatekeeper’s ‘incomplete love story’ right here.
82 12 months previous tells his story
‘I used to be 30 once I first met Marina. She got here to Jaisalmer for a desert safari whereas on a go to to Rajasthan from Australia. Marina had a five-day journey and I taught her tips on how to trip a camel. It was the Nineteen Seventies. In these days love even use to occur at first sight. And precisely that occurred. For each of us, it was love at first sight.
Throughout the complete journey, we had been unable to take away our eyes from one another. And earlier than she left for Australia, Marina spoke the three magical phrases, ‘I Love You’.
I used to be fully pink with embarrassment. Nobody had mentioned these phrases to me earlier than. I can always remember these days. I used to be so ashamed that I couldn’t utter a single phrase in response to her confession.
However she understood and we had been in contact with one another ever after Marina left for her nation. She used to jot down letters to me each week. And after just a few weeks, she known as me to Australia and I felt as if I used to be over the moon with pleasure.
With out telling my household, I borrowed Rs 30,000 and acquired a ticket to Melbourne, organized a visa, and took a flight to stay together with her.
These three months had been magical for me. She taught me English, I taught him Rajasthani ‘Ghoomar’ dance. However she mentioned, “Let’s get married and settle in Australia.” This was once I was in a state of confusion.
I didn’t need to depart my motherland and she or he didn’t need to settle in India. I instructed her, “This can’t go on for a very long time.” And we determined to separate.
It was not straightforward, she was crying fiercely the day I left her, however I needed to depart her and return again.
Then, our life progressed. A couple of years later, as a result of household stress, I needed to get married. After that, I labored as a gatekeeper of Kuldhara. Throughout these years, I used to consider Marina, would she have gotten married?
Will I see her once more? However I by no means dared to jot down to her a letter once more.
As time glided by, reminiscences additionally turned blurred. I obtained busy with my household duties. And two years in the past, my spouse died.
All my kids obtained married and moved ahead of their respective lives. And I, who’s 82 years previous, continued to work as a gatekeeper within the ghostly village of India.
And as quickly as I believed that no shock goes to occur in my life, then one thing like this occurred. A month in the past, Marina messaged me from someplace.
She requested, “How are you, my pal?” I obtained goosebumps. She discovered me after 50 years. From then on, she would name me every single day.
She instructed me that she by no means married and that she is coming to India quickly. I swear by Ramji, I began to really feel like I’m 21 years previous once more.
I have no idea what the long run holds, however realizing that my old flame is again in my life and speaking to me every single day is a sense that I can’t clarify.