 I was born and raised in New York City, but I was specifically raised in the Indian and Pakistani enclave of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst, which is aka Little India. So that really for me made it seem like I was growing up in Karachi. The language that I heard all the time, every single day, in the streets, in the markets, everywhere was the language that I spoke at home, Urdu and Hindi. They're both mutually intelligible. So growing up it felt like sometimes I felt like I was growing up on like a Bollywood set because it was very vibrant, it was very pungent, it was kind of an over a sensory overhaul or overload of just everything that you know I saw in the movies and on TV I saw it reflected in my own neighborhood so it was very authentic to say the least. And in terms of everything else my mom never made like American food. To this day I don't think I've ever had like hot dogs or anything at home. I grew up eating biryani, roti, kebab, stuff like that. I grew up in a very cultural and kind of religious household so it was the jarring part of it was probably when I started school because I did face a lot of bullying, a lot of teasing, a lot of misunderstanding from students and this was before 9-11 after that is completely you know it accelerated and became worse but yeah it was a it was very fascinating interesting to kind of have one foot in both worlds.