In my "Life without Penny" series the four male principal characters in TBBT split up. Only Sheldon stays at Caltech, Leonard returns home to Princeton, Howard moves to the Kennedy Space Centre and Raj returns to his alma mater of Cambridge University. What happened to Raj? Part 10 - Heathrow.
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The next weekend there was a big video chat between Raj, Samina and their families in India to discuss the wedding. The Indian relatives wanted them to fly back to India as soon as possible to get married. However, Raj and Samina pointed out that they had work to do in Cambridge. Eventually they agreed to return to India for the wedding in the University vacation next March. Raj and Samina's families were going to throw them a lavish Indian wedding party whether they liked it or not.
Samina took Raj to London to visit with her cousins. One of the cousins ran the old family Indian restaurant, so Raj got to see some of his fiancées past life. Raj and Samina spent as much time together as they could, Raj gradually found himself to be more and more comfortable talking to women, he could even answer questions from female students in lectures.
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In the new year Raj got an email from Leonard.
From: Leonard dot Hofstadter at phys dot princeton dot edu
To: Raj dot Koothrappali at cam dot ac dot uk
Dear Raj
Greetings from my alma mater, I am now Professor of laser physics here at Princeton, I started last week. My marriage to Leslie is falling apart, I am afraid that we are going to get a divorce :-( I took the opportunity for a clean break by leaving Caltech for Princeton. I hope that things are going well for you in Cambridge.
Leonard
From: Raj dot Koothrappali at cam dot ac dot uk
To: Leonard dot Hofstadter at phys dot princeton dot edu
Dear Professor Leonard
Congratulations on your new job, it is great to return to the alma mater :-) Sorry to hear about you and Leslie. I am getting married in just under 3 months to Samina, she is a British born Indian lady who is lecturer in Chemistry here in Cambridge. We have just bought a house together in Grantchester We are going to India in March for a big family wedding celebration and then we are going to Florida to visit Howard on our honeymoon.
Hope to see you soon
Raj
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In March Raj had another video chat with his parents
"Hello Mummy and Daddy, teaching is finally finished for another term. We are off to Heathrow tomorrow to fly to India for our wedding…"
