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To make it clear, this post is a short story, and a work of fiction predominantly. I say predominantly because certain settings and background have come out of real life, but the story in itself is complete fiction . Enjoy the story! 1997 I met you at at that party. You were wearing jeans and a t-shirt, something uncommon considering that I had always seen you in salwar-kameez in college. May be you did not want to create the wrong impression I figured; it was 1997, after all. I was meeting all of you for the first time probably. I knew the guys from college, they were all my classmates; it was their group party – to which I was invited too, perhaps as an initiation into the group. I met many people that party, yet your memory haunted me well after the party. After all you had said – “Aquarians are romantic!” No one had told me this before, and I at such blossoming prospect couldn’t help but smile. 1998 We’d known each other for 6 months already, and if not anything, we were slowly becoming the best of friends. 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football, as in I don’t or never follow club championships and the likes. Hence Arsenal is as powerful as Manchester United to me, and perhaps Real Madrid is better than both of them (all of which can be wrong). But there’s something about world cup football though that makes me glued to the TV from the start to the finish – something about its enormous scope, the countries involved, the sheer number of fans involved – all of this are enough to attract me. I love football as a sport, most definitely, and believe it’s the best game man invented as well, but ahem, to watch on TV. - At least for me! Anyways, going back in time some few moons ago (well make that many moons), I faintly recall that the first time I actually played football was in seventh grade. SEVENTH?! You may ask – “What did I do till then?” – To which my answer would be a shameless – “Nothing”. I had better things to do than play football, cricket, or umm, just play. I had important things to figure out: Will Chamataka succeed in his nefarious plans? Or will Doobdoob fail him again? Football could wait – there were more pressing matters at hand. 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