Two cities, one very long shortlist.

I was in Chattogram and she was in Dhaka, and for a while that felt like the whole problem. It was not. The problem was that I had been shown forty biodatas in a year by people who meant well and knew nothing about me. Here I could say what I actually wanted and then read what she actually wanted, and the two lists were not far apart. We talked for eleven weeks, which everyone told us was slow. It did not feel slow. Her mother came to Chattogram in the twelfth.