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In our Parsi community, no two Parsi or Irani families are the same, but we are united in our religion, in particular the three Avestan words taught to us at the time of our navjote: the tenets of humata, hukhta and hvarshta (good thoughts, good words and good deeds) that encapsulate the ethical code of Zoroastrianism.  I grew up in a family of loving, unassuming people and was fortunate to have known my maternal grandparents Minocher and Tehmina Lalkaka, and my mother’s maternal and paternal grandmothers. Both ladies lived into their mid-90s. Parsi women were, and still are, a force to......