Happy Fathers Day to my father, my husband, my nana1 and the many father figures I have encountered in my life! May we continue to cherish them and learn from them as they spoil us like no one can ever spoil us! Going through old photos this morning as I remember my Papa, our amazing…
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Of hugs on Skype and this long distant love
This morning as we were Skype-ing with Waliya, my youngest sister, with a big loving smile on her face Anya suddenly took the laptop and hugged her Walu and left me and my sister both teary eyed. With a lump in my throat, I thought of this road we have ended up upon, a lifetime…
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Three years. Three whole years, without you in the same world as us. You are everywhere. Your advice and your words live in our heads. Your love, your shelter surrounds us in this house that is our home now. Your memories, your life is everywhere we turn, in photos and videos, in the things that…
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There is a face wash that sits in my shower area. I bought it in 2008 when I was visiting my family for a few months in Karachi1. That trip of mine was the last time all five of us were together as a family (the only time after that was when my dad was…
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My mom is an only child so we grew up without a khala or mamun1. Ever since we were little we felt that void in our lives as we saw friends/family being loved by theirs. The words khala and mamun were magical for us and many of our childhood make-belief games had a khala character in them. Our favorite self-invented game where we would make…
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