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Over the years, this historic dressing table has worked overtime to groom all, including our relatives, on Christmas, weddings, and other family functions. Whenever I peer into it, I see my happy past being mirrored..
More specifically, what would the antique vanity table in my bedroom say if it could speak, especially with all the stress being laid these days on grooming?.
Located in the central place of the house (my bedroom), it has probably witnessed all important milestones in my, my siblings, and my sons lives, as well as those of my mother and uncles..
I wonder about its reaction when in our childhood, my younger sister smeared her face with lipstick during a game of Ghar-ghar (home); or when my elder brother etched a monstrous moustache on his face with kohl to complement the one on my face ahead of my appearance as a boy in a school dance.E.
I hope that this vanity table continues to cater to many more generations of our family, and impart happy memories to them, besides connecting them to their past and future, too..
