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A close candid photograph at an indoor event. A smiling woman with long curly dark hair, wearing a gold-trimmed garment, leans in to press her forehead against the forehead of a man with closed eyes and a red tilak mark. He wears white clothes with a red and black rudraksha mala and a pendant, and holds his palms together in namaskar. Behind them, people in white and orange-saffron shawls stand near blue plastic chairs and a fan. The man has short hair and a moustache and no crown, swept-back hair or ornate saffron robe, so no candidate is identifiable from appearance.

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