I was four or five, standing in my bedroom in our little terraced house in Maidstone, Kent, feeling that a fundamental part of me should be there but was missing.
My sister had been sent to India to live with our grandparents, ahead of my parents and I making the final move over there and leaving England behind forever. While the idea seemed to make sense to the grown-ups at the time, we didn’t join her for another four years.
DIFFERENT PATHS
It was a choice that created aftershocks in our family, even decades later. When I was seven, and knew I was about to be reunited with her, it filled my every thought. I pictured our first meeting, and decided her love would be contingent on whether she liked the carefully chosen package of sweets and stickers I’d put together for her. I don’t remember much of that moment, except for hugging her tightly and thinking, ‘Oh, here you are, the missing piece.’
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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