When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.
I always loved being in London and being near my parents.
I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.
I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.
My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro.
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
When I was a child, a lot of my time was spent in Scotland because my mother's Scottish, and we used to go up to Ayrshire and visit relations in a place called Dalry.