Dear Varathan and Kavita, Due to the many years of civil war and lack of travel in the past my sisters and I didnt have the opportunity to meet your parents till later years. Yet the bond between your amma and my amma was so evident in the regular letters they exchanged. Which my amma would always read to us. So when I eventually was able to visit your parents in Puttur it was like going home. I can't explain the connection I felt with your parents. I have many wonderful memories from our visits over the next years; sitting in the Puttur front yard and your appa patiently answering my many questions about life in Sri Lanka, walking together to the shops in Dehiwala, watching him lovingly take care of your amma, all of us enjoying thosai together and seeing your amma's beaming smile. These memories are forever etched in my heart Your parents are very dear to me and my sisters. We miss them very much.