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OUR BEACON POINT, ABY ACHEN

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  A Eulogy It's been 4 years now...   By dying young a person stays young in people’s memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all the time.                         Let me introduce to you one such individual who was a candle, a lantern, a sunbeam, but flickered out too soon. A friend, a brother, a guard, a guide, a knight in shining armour- to every single person he came into contact with. Our dear classmate-Rev. Aby Thampi Ninan (1984-2018).                         2003-2006 B.A English batch of Mar Thoma College, Thiruvalla. An amalgamation of variety characters- kids who completed schooling from different syllabi, kids from outside Kerala, even abroad, local kids, brothers from religious congregations, studious ones and backbenchers, meek and mild types and loud and wild types – we were supposed to study together for three whole years – and become friends? Impossible it seems, but with good souls who know how to lighten up a room as soon as