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5 years later...

Drishti was exhausted.

There wasn't really another word to describe the state a woman was in immediately following childbirth. The messy business was over.

The doctors and nurses had cleared out, and the family went home. Now it was just Drishti and Shravan in a quiet hospital suite.

Well, make that just Drishti, Shravan, and the brand-new Master Dhruv Maheswari in a quiet hospital suite.

Dhruv made her arrival at 4:53 p.m., weighing three kilograms, plus a hundred grams, and shrieking with the finest set of lungs to ever debut at Sunrise Hospital, Mumbai.

It had been a long day filled with excitement, nerves, joy, and pain. And now, she was enjoying a private moment she would remember for her whole life. Shravan was beside her in the reclining chair.

Dhruv was bundled up in a white blanket with pastel stripes. He is perfect, tiny, and pink with Shravan's features. Dhruv had fallen asleep with her small hand clutching Shravan's pinky finger, content, warm, and sa