 And I never felt more proud to be Indian in that moment than I have in my entire life. And I looked around me, and I saw my friends and their mothers nodding their heads, cheering her on, and in my head I was like, yeah, mom, you tell him. And it was this sense of, again, togetherness and community, and something I never experienced before. I knew people were there for me, and they had my back in a way that I never had before.