Skin Color
March 15th 2007 Christina here:
I'm white. Yeah. I've never been able to really tan. I used to pray every night that I'd wake up looking like one of the beautiful black girls that lived in our neighborhood. Their creamy brown skin was fascinating. Some mornings I really believed my prayers had worked, and I'd keep my eyes squinched up as long as I could against the hard--white--reality that always came.
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