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Posted on June 11, 2019June 12, 2019

The unbearable weight of my skin

When was it that I became aware of the colour of my skin? How different it shone in the sun (and the dark) than those around me? Or worse still, that it mattered at all. Was it when my mother asked in jest “What happened to you? You were born fair. All your relatives used …

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