For about half an hour she gives a detailed account on our trip to Derby, so I hear the whole story for the second time. Meanwhile I remember how lucky I am with my own parents. While they are really normal and provided me and my sister with a well-balanced, harmonic childhood, Dylan’s family was a nightmare. To this day, he hasn’t been able to process the trauma he went through as a little boy, and his injuries affect every single day he lives as an adult. And no matter what luxury Amina grew up in, her parents are also not normal. One of them didn’t want her and gave her up, and the other terrorises her, trying to force morbid things on her. So many abnormal families, good God!
‘So, my mother will be in London next week, my chance to meet her has finally come,’ she finishes with a deep
