December 9, 2019 | Nonfiction
Leg Warmer
Jaya Wagle
The first time a boy accidently touches your leg you are fourteen—
The first time a boy accidently touches your leg you are fourteen—
I won’t apologize for trying to forget the days I spent with you, riding pillion on your Honda, inhaling Bombay’s foggy polluted streets, sitting on rickety wooden benches of hole-in-the-wall Indo-Chinese joints, slurping Szechwan noodles and sipping Tom Yum soup, strolling on Juhu’s wet sandy beaches, letting the ocean wash our feet.