and not for the first time in my life, I would start my search for love in all the wrong places.

At this point I have a confession to make. After 14 years as a Sunderland fan in Manchester, my experience of fan conversations had become somewhat skewed. I had one friend in the city who also supported the team, but for the most part I was surrounded by the blithe certainties of United supporters, and the deadpan sarcasm of the long-suffering City fans (who in their pre-billionaire days nonetheless enjoyed a certain inverted glory as the anti-United). As early as the pre-emigration plane ride over, I’d wondered what it might be like to root for a local side that won with soul-crushing regularity. To my lasting shame, IPatricia Berjak

Patricia Berjak  (29 December 1939 – 21 January 2015) was a South African botanist known for her work on the biology of plant seeds, especially seed recalcitrance. She was professor for 48 years at the University of Kwazulu-Natal (UKZN). 

She earned a B.Sc. degree in biochemistry at the University of the Witwatersrand (1962), then went on to the University of Natal (now UKZN), earning a M.Sc. in mammalian physiology and biochemistry (1966) and PhD in seed biology (1969). She was a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and a Fellow of the University of Natal, the Royal Society of South Africa and the Third World Academy of Sciences. She was awarded the Order of Mapungubwe (Silver) in 2006.

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