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I was born in Canada. My parents and my eight siblings were born in India. That's where my parents

are from. They came from quite a poor village. They had an arranged marriage.

And from what I hear, they were very much in love since day one, even though they had an arranged

marriage. My mom was around 17 when she had her first child. They moved to Delhi. They settled

into an apartment flat and they had eight kids and they all lived in this small room.

Six girls and two boys. We come from a Muslim family and so my dad was very much into his faith.

He was very religious. My mom was sort of like, yeah, I'm Muslim. But I'm also kind of liberal

and out there. But back then, the rules were already set for them. The wife will take care of

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