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Some people are written into your story before you even glean how to hold a pen.
Raya Sharma never thought a letter from Stanford would change everything. A new country, a fresh start that's all she hankered for. What she didn't surmise was him.
Ahaan Raichand. The boy who once knew every version of her. The boy who evolved a stranger without either of them discerning.
Thousands of miles from home, in the middle of lecture halls and late night coffee runs, the distance they spent years building starts to crack. Old vestiges bleed into new ones. And somewhere between who they were and who they've become, something neither of them mapped out begins to grow.
He never mislaid her. She never stymied thinking about him.
But wanting someone and being braced for them are two very different things.
Learnt to Kneel is a story about growing up, growing apart, and the terrifying, beautiful moment you realize some people were never really gone they were just waiting