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February 14,2006,Valentine's Day:Hello there.I am Sonaa Dewar.I live in Ash Apartments,Calcutta.My father has a car dealership.That is a sophisticated way of saying he sells cars for a living.Nevertheless,I am getting married.To Arin.Its eleven pm now and we have been engaged for two hours now.I had a great day today,dear diary.I woke up at 5.30 am.College starts at 6.30 pm,you know.My college is BES College.I am doing Bachelor of Commerce from there.We had only one lecture today and that's economics.Professor Banerjee spoke for an hour on Monetary Theory.As usual, most of us understood very little.I attend college to get a degree and that's about it.You see I am already working.I work as reporter for a leading news channel.If I may say so myself I am rather pretty.So pretty that people scarcely know what to do on seeing my face.This makes me very suitable for covering society dos and air-kissing parties.I was at one of these parties today.A leading fragrance was being launched in Calcutta and a huge bash was thrown at The Sheraton.The richest and the prettiest were present at the party which was held at around eight pm.I have attended so many of these launches that I know by rote how the whole thing will go.Still,its my job to talk about the gala on camera.This I did.And I might boast that I did a mighty good job of it.I had been asked to speak to the head honcho of the perfume company whom I had never met before.I have told you about my boyfriend Arin.I met him at a cybercafe last year.He said he was an insurance salesman.And I believed him.We did go out for dates.We always picked up our own tabs.But man,the perfumes he wore.They were just killer.And I wondered why.To get back to the launch.I had been given some background information about this CEO whom I was supposed to talk to for my channel.He was a self-made man.He liked to travel to exotic places and pick up fragrances from there.The trick was to extract the essence of the smell and then replicate it chemically,first in the workshop and then,in the factory.As I was beginning the interview his back was turned to me.It was exactly nine pm. "Sir, I began, "Any special thoughts on this momentous occasion? The CEO turned and who should it be but my own Arin.With the camera running and the cream of Calcutta egging him on Arin went down on one leg.And he said, "Will you be my wife Sonaa? And without knowing how I did it, I said, "Yes. Dear diary it is true.We are going to get married and Arin,the darling he is has named his first perfume after me.Its called "Sonaa of course.