‘When I first moved to London, my brothers gave me a fish. A tetra. I called her Ki-ang. It means “to love” in Ancient Sumerian. I didn’t know the noun for “love”, so the verb had to do. Anyways Ki-ang was very cute, but I thought she must be lonely and so I bought another fish to keep her company – and for a while things were fine, and the second fish grew bigger, but one morning, when I checked, there was only one fish in the bowl. Love had disappeared.’ The cab pulls over in front of them, and the driver pokes his head out of the window, nodding in their direction. ‘Was it an angelfish, the
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