He offered me gum before our first kiss freshman year. Was it my breath or a commercial he saw? At home he saw my Barbies, met my family, taught me some Tagalog. After that, he never asked me out again.
He was Asian and I white, but I had so little awareness of the idea of "race," whatever that means, at the time. We were both immigrants. Ethnicity was something I pondered, but not race. . . until much later when I became initiated into the American culture and its obsession with race.
I am one of many, embarking on this experiment. The idea is to write a short piece of poetic prose about 365 people I have encountered in my life, one entry per day for a year, using approximately the number of words, matching my age. I've stopped, then resumed, but I am resolved to take this to the finish line.
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Interracial love: so sweet, so hot, so taboo for everyone else.
He was Asian and I white, but I had so little awareness of the idea of "race," whatever that means, at the time. We were both immigrants. Ethnicity was something I pondered, but not race. . . until much later when I became initiated into the American culture and its obsession with race.
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