Viraha
vi-RUH-huh
n.The love that only becomes fully known through separation.
SanskritEstablished linguistic term
Four and a Half Hours
The time difference was four and a half hours, which is a stupid number, which is a number designed by a committee that hated lovers.
It meant there was no clean overlap. It meant that his morning was her lunch and her evening was his afternoon and the only hour that belonged to both of them without cost was 11 p.m. for her and 6:30 p.m. for him, and they had taken that hour and made it a religion.
Fourteen months so far. Seven to go, in theory, depending on a visa office that answered no emails.