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Till a week before, I loved Chennai deeply. Till a week before, I dreaded the thought of leaving Chennai forever. It's not that now I don't love it. I belong to it, and it belongs to me. The blood that flows in me carries the breath of Chennai. But it's just that, it has become a strange place to me now that most of my beloved people have left. As I sit on our favorite pink train, I'm unable to live the moments now that the people with whom I spent those moments aren't here anymore. It sucks. Till a week before, I felt happy at the thought of getting admitted again in this city for Masters, but now I feel a huge void. A void that can never be filled. Perhaps it was for this reason that I got to be among the last of us to leave Chennai. Maybe, back then I didn't understand that the people I love made this city beautiful, and that now they are no more here, this city doesn't make sense. I cannot imagine myself creating new memories here. I want those little me...