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I am writing

this

letter to request your approval for taking a few days off to go to my home country; to attend my brother's wedding. I would like to have a leave for

fifteen

days from December 20th. As my home country, India is really far away from here and takes three days to reach there by connecting flights, I would need a little more than six days just for flying.

Hence

fifteen

days is the least amount of leave I could do with, to attend the function. I

am planning

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plan

to go to India before the end of the semester because my brother's wedding has been fixed for December 30th.

Also

, being his only brother I would need to attend the function.

Further

, I would be completing all my interim exams before I leave on December 20th.

Additionally

, as I

will be away only

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will only be away

for a short duration of

fifteen

days, I would be able to catch up with the missed portions in less than a week. Not just that, in

this

period of

fifteen

days, 6 days of holidays have been included for Christmas.

Hence

, I would be effectively missing a very small portion of

lecture

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the lecture

This

missed portion, I can assure you that I would be

catching

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caught

up in less than a week

from

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since

then

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