Forty Years of Friendship

Priya and I arrived in Leicester within six months of each other. We were both strangers to England and to each other, and we became the kind of friends you only make when you are both slightly lost in the same place. She taught me how to find a GP, how to read a gas bill, how to make English people feel comfortable at Indian functions. She was sharper than she let on and funnier than people realised. She had a way of saying the most devastating thing in the most gentle voice. I will miss her every day.