The Dandelions - Memoirs #3 page 12; A/N on page 15 - Page 11

Originally posted by: Nynaeve

Res - after I read😊

And Unres...which could be earlier since I was the first to Res😕

Dear Nalini,

Dear Nyna😊

That was roller coaster ride - I had to read it three more times before I could gather all my thoughts sufficiently to express my comments.😊

I hope I just didn't make you feel giddy with the twists and turns Nyna.😉 I'm happy you took it to 3. When I wrote it down I was down right apprehensive if anyone would read it once. 😊 Thankyou so much.

We start where we left off in the previous memoir - a token of memories which now is the strength for both of them, a constant reminder of the long journey they have been together. From this slight nostalgia we jump into a memory of the kiss - though having a spoiler alert it was dreamy - So Sanskaar both initiates the act and the recompense for the same - he bribes Uttara to pull out the pins from Swara's tied up hair (those stringed - there / not there choli must have wrecked havoc on Sanskaar) and then demands a kiss to allow Swara to pin her hair up again. And how determined is he to get it - willingly or forced, she should have realised how determined her soon-to-be hubby could be. But he was in for a surprise, a kiss initiated by him soon turned into one that was taken by her. Loved this spunky version of Swara and her chagrined realisation of what she did (He loved it, I am sure)😉

I have taken too long to comeback on to this thread Nyna , that reading these comments one more time is making me glow with joy. You are actually taking me through those lines and it's like walking down a memory lane for me.

I'm pleased😳for having made it dreamy even with a prior warning. Thankyou so much. And yea Sanskaar should have known that " inside every girl a secret swan slumbers longing to burst forth and take flight" . But he seems to have learned his lesson finally. Yes.

😳

Then we land with thud - that was unfair - no warning either 😡- the whole scene was so ominous and appears to a foretelling of what is coming; Swara being brave, she was prepared and content??? and Sanskaar unwilling to let her go - after all, how can one give up that which is our life and soul and continue to live. There was so much of raw agony in his protest - "no" but it encompassed all the fervent pleas that he could voice.

Oh I'm so sorry . But I'm pleased at the same time because I wanted to deliver the thud you were complaining about. I'm mean now, and I some how like being so. But yea Sanskaar! My hearts goes for him again. His very life ticks my her every breath and beat. Then how could he just let her slip away. But it's not the end Nyna, love so deep doesn't end so soon. I promise to let it flow. Sincerely. But yes swara should be brave here. She would rather see the pain end than let him die slowly seeing her pain,

The ending is then an uplifting one - both actually falling asleep ( I suppose) in each other's arms and on noticing her now dried palms reveal his name on both her palms - exhilaration and pride! Of course, he won't take long to claim his waiting bride, decked in red.

Haha :) yes falling asleep in each other's arms just hours before the wedding. Such a bliss it is to wake up in his arms for her on the big day with her arms adorned in their entwined names. I'm so glad you enjoyed it Nyna 😊

Loved it and am now greedy for more

Will deliver soon , but you know I'm busy working on reflections now. But I'll come back. And Asaph. This thread is something I dream of everyday. I hope you will love the next ones the same,

Once again a big thankyou for the words. Your really made my day.

love,

Nyna

Originally posted by: tootiefrootie11

Res Nalini:)

Drowning in work today and lots of other thing but will comment at some point in the weekend:) Mmmwah for this X

Unres:

Dearest Nalini

Dear shruthi

I am really embarrassed about the time it has taken me to unres this! As you guessed in your other reply there were battled and wedding that isn't yet happening that are giving me headaches but also work and family and just generally a sense of ennui due to the show being in such a sorry state at present! Apologies and here is my take on yet another stirring Memoir, i.e. No 3 in the collection! Also as usual IF reminded me why I get so frustrated with it- I typed a mega essay and in the main para it deleted more than half of it when i tried to swap the order around . I've tried to retype from memory but if I miss some of it off and the post doesn't read that well- sorry! 😕

😲Embarrassed about being late? Well, no worries. That's silly of you I say. Nothing is ever late here. Just think it this way : the more late replies and late updates we get, the more Swasan we get 😉..

See, I actually took time last night to read this thread again and refresh my memory. How irredeemably late am I ??! Yet it was fun, I got to read my own thread like a clueless reader. Lucky me .. And I have got these lovely comments to do that to me.. Feeling blessed. Anyway, no apologies whatsoever dear. 😊

So we start with the present and a Mr and Mrs Maheshwari so adorable even when old! Their teasing banter about their age and the sweetness of that whole scene belies their age in a way nothing else could. At heart they are still the SwaSan they always were and will be- the age affects the body but not the mind and soul 😳.

True. Age doesn't effect the mind as it effects the body. I'm glad you enjoyed their failing attempts to make the moments light. Try as they might it's so hard. I'm deciding right now to make them a tiny bit merrier in the next updates. Not much but yes I think they have to stop brooding now and living more in what little they can have. Let's see what we can do there.

And I so love how the album is literally a visual representation of their walk through their eventful but very meaningful life 👏👏. You called it a treasure chest which it is and I almost feel privileged to be taken along too! So thank you as the chronicler for that!

Awww thankyou. I have a thing about cherishing even the smallest things in life.in every article around us in this vast world there is a story to be told. So I put a little more detail into such things. I though it would be rather boring for the reader , but I'm sooo pleased to know that you loved it too.🤗

We then get that lovely scene of their sheer longing and passion for each other before the wedding and their stolen moments which was all so romantic and yet sexy I was 😳😳, and reading with a huge smile too! I absolutely loved that touch of Sanskaar being so overcome by her bare back during the day that he has to actually bribe his sister to make her cover up with the ingenious method of letting down her hair- this whole thought is so ☺️☺️☺️. I actually find touches like that more powerful sometimes than an obvious kissing or physically expressive scene. But here the scene that immediately followed was equally errrmm stirring! ☺️ Those kissed and the way Sanskaar cannot literally keep his hands off his to be bride, and her shyness but her answering passion too as well as the "bargain" struck for a kiss and Sanskaar's enforcement of that- 😳

Sexy!! I have one plastered on my face now.😃well how could he keep his asanskariness at bay for so long when swara deliberately does that. 😳Yes, I agree with you, such actions are indeed more powerful than others. Shruthi now I'm blushing. Was it really so. I tried to keep it low. But well. You make it sound a yummy piece of chocolate cake now. I have to go back and read again I guess. Yet I'm so pleased that you liked it so much ..and yea bargain stuck kisses are more sweet 😉

And then back to the present 😭😭- I can't write too long about this as it hurts too much! Literally the stuff of Sanskaar's nightmares and ours too! No matter how inevitable you know something is, when it was so beautiful and brought with it such memories it literally hurts with a pain you cannot describe. I feel you really bring that out with your writing on this amazingly conceptualised series and I know how difficult it is to express such angst without making it seem morbid- so you deserve a bow for that! 👏⭐️

Okay agreed!! I can't write more about it too.😭 Yet I'll try here. I literally tear up as I right those parts. But when you guys tell me that I made justice in expressing it. I feel so pleased ... Oh that sadistic part of me just comes out with a glee.😃 Sounding mean now! I'm sorry shru.. But this has to go on..I don't yet know If deserve that bow shruthi. But I'm so humbled here😳. Thankyou so much (while making a mental note to make this a bit less painful next time.) If I'm to end these two. I should rather give them a happy one. I already have the ending planned. Stashed and safe in my notes. But unfortunately that takes time..-so I'll tone the sadness down slowly.

And I want to say a huge thanks for ending this really charged one on the note you did- the flashback again and to such an anticipated and wonderful moment- the upcoming wedding and the start of that part of an unforgettable life!

And I thankyou for telling me this shruthi. That I ended the memory aptly means a lot. But be assured. They are dandelions. They always end happy.

This one however was special for me too. The way they deserved I guess. 🤗

Lovely work again Nalini and look forward to more! Have you planned how many there will be or are you going to play it by ear?

Thankyou so much dear. I should say, if not for your encouragements these rantings of mine are nothing. Thankyou.😊 I haven't yet planned on how many but I have a hand full of ideas.

Loads of love,

Shru xoxo