Kachori from Baluchis

"We can get whatever you want for dinner," she says. She strokes my hair as I lay, practically in the fetal position, the way I've really wanted to just curl up all day.

"Now, you know I'm not like you," I say, sighing "where I just have a craving and know what it is, but I'll give it a shot."

And suddenly, like a vision, it comes to me, and I know exactly what I want, where to get it, and one of my first genuine smiles of the day spreads across my face.