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I am a Parsi married to a foreigner. Every time I return to India I read in the Parsianas my father keeps for me about the problems faced by Parsis married to non-Parsis in dealing with najvotes, births and deaths, about not being allowed to enter the Towers of Silence on the death of our parents. I would like to ask a few questions to the pious and the priestly. I grew up in a city where there were no Parsi boys. Were the boys three-legged? Did they have two heads? Were there so many suitable boys around that I had......



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