“I’m engaged,” she shouted down the phone. Here I was, first year at university, sitting on a dirty wall outside my flat, being told by my best friend that at the age of 19, she was engaged. I was expecting this call because my friend was always considered more traditional than the rest of my group of three Muslim girlfriends - but it surprised me how soon it came.
She was in her second year of university; I’d only just started my degree, and until this point, we had no married or engaged friends.
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