.. to be very honest, I never really got the ache parents talk about whilst sending their kids off to other cities or continents, or having to stay away from them for years. It all felt… distant. Until I adopted my baby my jaan my puchusku, my Alia my Aloo my Arya 🧿 ______ People love to mock “dog parents,” and I used to be one of them tbh. Back when I was terrified of dogs. (Childhood trauma: being chased, watching a friend get bit in front of me..it was real) But aryaindiestark changed everything. She softened a part of me I didn’t even know was frozen. And leaving my family, friends AND her, moving to a whole other continent? It cracked something wide open. A little dump of moments that was already heavy with personal grief, the first collage from my vidaai from Ranchi, that felt even harder because it felt like I was walking away with a huge chunk of my heart missing. ————————————- So much of our news and media is flooded with hate against Indian pariah dogs. “XYZ person ...