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The Characters

Deepa

I never dreamt I would be so fortunate as to find a friend as true and as faithful as my dearest Mary, whom I left behind in 1813. And then there was Deepa, who showed me that a lady may serve drinks and still be a lady, and that divorce need not mean scandal and poverty. Deepa has taken me places I never imagined: public assemblies that pulsate with pounding music I can feel in my bones, sea bathing in an ocean above which winged machines soar, and a little room in the back of her club where resides a most extraordinary lady.