Word: vikhroli
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...highlight of Lillian Carter's trip was a four-hour pilgrimage back to Vikhroli, the town near Bombay where she served as a Peace Corps nurse a decade ago. "I can't wait to kiss everybody," she said on arrival. Old friends greeted her as Lily behn (our sister Lily), and schoolchildren sang, danced and even performed yoga exercises in her honor. At the dispensary, a former patient told her that his asthma was better. "Of course," teased Mrs. Carter. "I cured you." As she moved from one patient to another, she murmured, as if to herself...
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