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When I was little, I wasn’t the skinniest girl. I was 4’6 and 100 pounds in the fourth grade, which was definitely chubbier than most of the girls in my class. Because of that I always stood out from the bunch, and I wasn’t the only one who noticed. My aunt would always tell me that I should lose weight because if I didn’t do anything about this then no one would like me. She believes that skinny people are the prettiest. She told me that my face was pretty, but my body wasn’t.
I noticed that most Asian adults, like my aunt, don’t have a filter, so they tend to speak what’s on their mind, not knowing that they are hurting someone’s feelings. When I was 10, my family and I decided to eat at a Vietnamese restaurant. I ordered my usual Bun Bo

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