"He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head."

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About Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri is an author known for fiction and essays exploring migration, identity, and language. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Interpreter of Maladies.

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