A daughter recounts (in the 3rd person) her experience of leaving behind her parents - an ill father - to go overseas with her husband, and the pain she still carries within as it was the last goodbye.

As parents, we make sure that our twin daughters do not have certain elements of a modern lifestyle in their life. I hope, that we are doing good by them.

How to be a man? This is a question many boys growing up in a society that has skewed gender roles ask themselves, aiming to be macho men. Our author has a different take.

I had a feminist father, but because he was an introvert who did not express his feelings, and had a very forbidding exterior, I had not realized my privilege then.

A large brown envelope. But the little girl that got it from her dad wouldn't have known how much its contents would affect how she looked at everything!