On a whim, I decided to switch to Bengali as I picked her up to go into the kitchen: “Ey dikay aiy, amar misthi shona.” (“Come here, my sweet one.”) For the first time, I stopped feeling like a phoney. I felt as if I were speaking the right language. So I carried on in Bengali. Later that day, my mum came to visit ...
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