Kami's Short Story: Half Black Girl

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“It was an all black school no mixed, no white, just black, until I came forgot to mention I’m Kami I am going to let someone else take over the story. She was a brunette fading into strawberry blonde, skin as soft as a new peach that everybody admired. People never saw half-white, half-black girl before in their life. People wanted to be her friend everybody loved her. Then they realized why was my skin tone different.
People started asking her why do you have light skin? What state do you come from I didn’t say until it was the sixth person to ask, it was the bully she finally said very softly “ I am half white okay.” That day from now on she would know the bully would pinch she would tease and tease “ now you are black like us.” she

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