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Amma's weathered hands arranged jasmine flowers exactly as she had fifty years ago in Chennai. My phone captured the moment, the algorithm humming with recognition. Views climbed as strangers fell in love with her ritual, those golden coins converting to rupees I could send home. But the real payment came differently. Comments flooded from diaspora cousins, scattered across continents, suddenly remembering grandmother's kitchen, temple festivals, the smell of coconut oil in braided hair. My selfie beside Amma became a bridge, connecting us to roots we nearly forgot. The platform paid in rupees, but she paid me in remembrance, in belonging, in the quiet knowledge that heritage lives loudest when shared.