Her incapacity went beyond childhood to adulthood. Now, it seems it will go years beyond. Her grandmother has turned old enough to look after her. ‘I am having problem with my health conditions, what happens to her after her grandmother dies,’ her grandmother exclaimed. Rejina held a cup of tea and did not take long to finish it. She asked for biscuits and did not dispose off its wrapper. Nor she disposed off the wrappers that contained noodles and other eatables. ‘She burns her mouth so often,’ she added.

The death of Rejina’s grandfather has increased her restlessness. ‘Every day, she waited for him because they would eat together, she would hold his t-shirt when she was left to eat alone when my husband died of falling down the hill,’ she stated. ‘Rejina still believes her grandfather is alive,’ she added. Her child like behaviors and innocence drives everyone scatty.

I did not find her different except her natural physical growth. She went in and come out of the kitchen many times as she denied to come close to me. She did not recognize me, but I did her well. She ate what she was offered to eat. Her grandmother is only person, who Rejina trusts so extremely, who knows the best and worst of her, and who loves her despite all faults of her by looking after her without wrapping her on herself. ‘Rejina is strong enough, and has not lost her muscle tone,’ her grandmother asserted. I was captured all the times with equally warm, unpretentious, and innocent smile of her that made me forget everything that happened on that day.