sentences:  After seeing this sacrifice, Sonia realizes that she cannot give up Prem just to keep her father happy and begs him to let them marry.Her father still refuses and makes further derogatory comments about Indians and her mother, and this is when Sonia reveals the truth – that her mother was diagnosed with a contagious disease, so she made the sacrifice to leave the two of them and die alone in India, so that they would not get sick.She gives her father letters written by her mother (but never sent) and he apologizes to Sonia and tells her to go to Prem.