Everyone needs a fantasy family

Let me tell you about my Uncle Min.



Hardly anyone in Cambridge knew we weren’t actually related to each other. We’d introduced each other as ‘my uncle’, and ‘my niece’ so often that to us, the relationship quickly became indisputable. We wholeheartedly believed it ourselves. People were often surprised, and questioned us.


“But you look so different?”


“You’re so close together in age?”


“Why don’t you talk like each other?”