I was shocked to see my mother ,who usually socialises mostly with Indians,happily chatting away with an arabic looking female at the reception area of my brother’s bulding.What shocked me even more was that she had found the strangest connection with them.When I walked over, she introduced me.She then turned around and told me that they were Syrian Christians, like us(Nasrani)!The only difference being that they were actually ‘Syrian’ and we were Syrian coz our ancestors were either Syrians or Indian Namboodaris converted by the syrians who came on the same ship as St.Thomas. Appa insists thatour ancestors were syrians and that that explains his bald patch!When he was in Iraq, the Americans even called him Saddam’s brother 
(Coz of his Middle Eastern looks. I know Saddam was not Syrian!)
Back to the real syrians.They were suprisingly overjoyed to meet us and even invited us over.My Appa went on to discuss prayers in ‘Suriyani’, which was an indication that we were gonna be standing there and talking to them for a loooooooong time!
Amma even thinks lil ‘Lucas’ is cute and even mentioned he is a lil older than our lil Mary aka Kunjus!!!(Hope this doesnt turn out to be like the half a dozen guys my mom promised to get me married to when I was a baby) :D 
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