After a moment’s pause, he continued, saying:
“And you know what? Even though sometimes I get a bit ‘homesick’ as you put it, I’d do it all over again, because that’s how I met my wife, which is the best thing that has ever happened to me. She gets me and although we’ve had our sad times because we wanted to have kids and they wouldn’t come, we’ve already gotten over it and now we enjoy our lives with our friends.”
“But uncle, family is family,” I said very seriously, “and there’s nothing else like it.”
“Yes, it’s true, but now this is my family. What are we gonna do? There’s no point in complaining. Look, we meet and talk about our things, sometimes I think we get along better than with our real families, that we’ve formed a real family here, so far from our own land.”
“Sure, you have
