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i'm all alone on rakhi :(. i'm brotherless. i sent an ecard to my cousin and it almost made me cry because it was an animation of a sister putting a tikka on her brother and then tying the rakhi and then getting a gift :( i miss it all i wish i could fly to india for like a day to celebrate it. i love it..the day before all the girls go to the beauty parlor and get so made up so they can look perfect and they buy rakhis although u should never wait till the day before because then u'll just end up with the shitty rakhis. and i esp love the chandan rakhis, the ones that smell nice. then the day of when you're out on the road you see all the boys, guys, men whatever driving a scooter and some have only 2 or 3 rakhis on their hands and some have like 15 all the way up to their elbow. it's great..it's so colorful. and u eat kheer and puri and aloo and halwa. then you get all this money (luckily if u have alot of brothers but unfortunately for me i only have 3 haha)...and then a few days after we go to the market and have a "party" aka buying cakes, chips, pastries, and gol guppe and blow all your rakhi money. and everyones families are together for a little bit..it doesn't matter if some people really don't like each other. everyone just stops and takes a moment from their busy lives to just be together and eat together and complain about how they haven't kept in touch. i'm always being pulled in two directions. part of me just wants to be fully american or fully indian..this whole nostalgic crap and yearning to be somewhere else every now and then wouldn't come in to play then. i get off from work at 10..what a wonderful way to celebrate this holiday.