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प्रश्न
Talk with your family members about elderly people who you have been intimately connected with and who are not there with you now.
Write a short description of someone you liked a lot.
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उत्तर
(Students may develop the answer using the given guidelines.)
The relation and the loss of a close elderly relative can be discussed under the points listed below.
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Your relation with the person
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The time period spent with the person
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Things you both did together
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Things you got to learn from the person
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Reasons for the development of intimacy
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Reason for you not being with him/her
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The message left behind
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Life without him/her
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Ways to recollect old memories
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