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Some mornings are so foggy, even the

Memorial a los Detenidos Desaparecidos de Fox-Hodess | Digital Photography

You see she is the girl that has it all, while I have very little. Her name is Sally or Sue or Megan, while mine is hard to pronounce and underlined in red on the computer.

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In falling down rabbit holes and meeting the mad of this world, I find then that I see blonde hair instead of brown. white skin instead of brown skin. And then I see that girl who seems to have it all together, The same prototype of girl I come across most days, And suddenly she is plastered on the cover of every movie of my childhood. I see that girl who has it all, and I realize that as a little girl, she was what I envisioned me being. But yet, that girl is not me. And I am angry I ever wanted it to be. A flash of insight, this world crashes to an end, I see how unjust these differences can be, And I realize most days, I'm not just fine with it being that way.