When Shehara left her teaching job in San Francisco in 2001 she decided to take the summer off while she figured out her future. “I was planning to go back to studying but I wanted some time away first,” she says. In July, she travelled to London with her family for a reunion. “My whole family was going to be there. My sister went out first and I flew later.”
As soon as Shehara arrived, she discovered her sister, Sheana, had met a family friend called Tarique at a party. “She told me she really liked him,” she says. “All week, she was inviting me out with him and some of our cousins. I was third wheeling, but I didn’t mind because it was the first time my sister had been smitten.”
