I'm simply a person with a thick bottom lip and outward top lip, broad nose, thick curly hair that can only be straightened by chemicals, skin bejeweled in melanin and a limited lifespan. And yet people point and scream "Frankenstein!’" As if I’m so different from my own kind. My care for such things is like the white…
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