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Chicago to Abu Dhabi

I ran through the security and reached the lounge area fifteen minutes before scheduled time to catch my flight for Abu Dhabi from Chicago. There was a huge rush of people who all looked alike and without thinking much I assumed that everyone belonged to India. There were kids playing cricket, wives fighting with their husbands and there was a beautiful girl sitting right opposite to me conversing in Hindi. To my surprise the girl asked me if I was going on the same flight, although it was very obvious. It was very easy to strike a chord with her and it was very evident from her poise that she belonged to an educated family. As I continued my conversation with her, I found out that she was a passionate cricket fan with tremendous knowledge about world politics. Time flew with her as we managed to sit together in the flight and our conversation flew from politics, sports and philosophy. In the middle of all this strangely we never talked about our final destination. As we landed in