SMALL PRINT
Oct 01, 2020
5 minutes
Words by Laea Marshall
Dinara Farina, 43, Maidenhead
Walking out of Heathrow Airport with my suitcase in tow, I looked at the grey London sky. It was 2009, I was 32, and I’d just moved from my home in Russia to the UK.
I’d come over for a better life, but moving to a new country is always scary.
Just a few weeks later, though, when I landed a great job in IT, I knew I’d made the right choice.
It felt like destiny.
I settled in right away, improved my English and got used to British culture, and two years later, in 2011, I met Nicholas, now 48, at a speed dating evening.
He also worked in IT, and we had so much in common.
Sweeping me off my feet, we were married just a
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