The American Dream
Just one woman's timeline growing up in America
On an April day the year I got braces, two kid brought guns into their high school. Our parents asked us to tell them if we were sad. They blamed video games.
On the most beautiful, blue sky September day only one year after I kissed a boy for the first time, the skies turned black and they blamed a religion and made us scared of brown people in turbans…
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