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Love Letters

S7E6: Right Here Waiting for You

Love Letters

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Love Tips, Breakups, Dating, Relationship Tips, Love, Dating And Relationships, Love Advice, Advice, Dating Tips, Marriage Advice, Breakup Advice, Relationship Advice, The Boston Globe, Boston, Society & Culture, Love Letters, Meredith Goldstein, Dating Advice, Letters, Relationships, Boston Globe

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ever since he was young, Jared believed he had to choose between being gay and being Muslim. Because everyone around him was telling him he couldn’t be both. This impossible choice tore Jared apart, up until the day he met a kind, blue-eyed stranger on a park bench. Email us at [email protected].

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A few hours northwest of London, in the West Midlands of England, there's a town called

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Darlisten.

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Decades ago, Darlisten was home to minors and metalworkers who powered England's industrial

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machine.

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Today, it's a haven for immigrants from South Asia and East Africa who've built new communities

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of their own.

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This is the place where Jared Chaudry grew up in a conservative Muslim enclave.

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His father is from Saudi Arabia, his mother from Bangladesh.

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Early on, Jared says, he just accepted the customs and traditions in his community.

0:41.8

Really, there was no alternative.

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Very religious area.

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There's about three, maybe four mosques around where I lived.

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The culture, life fairs, that is lamy culture.

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Most times of the day, as a younger, I can remember hearing their call for prayers.

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The problem was, Jared didn't really fit into the culture he was raised in.

1:03.8

Later, he would come to understand that he was gay.

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But as a kid, all he knew was that he felt different from the other people around him.

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What did you think about when you were young?

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Did you think you might stay in that area?

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What did you think about the future you wanted?

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Some words where my parents were, but where I lived, even though I grew up there, I feel

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like I still didn't belong there, so I didn't call it home because I don't know who I was

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