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India: Pinterest is like smoking a booger. You just get completely addicted to it.

Taj: There’s people that have smoked boogers before.

India: I’ve never heard of it, actually. I just made it up. You started the interview without me?

समाधिBot: No, you’re featured at the beginning of the interview.

India: Oh. This is a picture of lanterns, right daddy?

Zahra: Dad, did you draw that?

समाधिBot: Uhh, mom says she drew it.

India: Mmm.

समाधिBot: Tell me why we make lanterns at this time of year.

India: I think it’s because you guide the way of homeless people, but otherwise, mommy said it’s something about… well, the light, or something something something. I don’t really know.

समाधिBot: Taji why do we make lanterns at this time of year?

Taj: Oh I don’t know.

समाधिBot: Any guesses?

Taj: To make light?

समाधिBot: That’s a good answer!

Zahra: Dad I have an answer. I have a choice. It can just turn into a cow, no, a cat…

Taj: No they don’t turn into anything, they just stay lanterns.

समाधिBot: I have an idea, why don’t you go ask mom what the significance of the lanterns is, and then come back and you can tell us for the interview. I’ll pause it…

[Break in tape]

India: Mommy said, first of all, it’s about something like the light within us. That’s number one.

समाधिBot: I’m aware of that light.

India: Number two is… I was right about the first thing, it is kind of like guiding out homeless people. That’s like half the thing we’re doing, and the best thing is: it’s also about spreading some light around. And another thing is…

[Zahra and Taj brawling]

समाधिBot: You know that light within, that’s what our meditation is all about.

India: Oh, it is? I didn’t know that. Actually, yes I did.