We'll Be Okay!
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Last published Fri, Aug 3, 2018
"There's nothing easy about being a Muslim teen in America. There's nothing easy about being a Black, Muslim teen in America."
a series of long, sometimes short, and somewhat unrelated synopsizes of a girl trying to take what life throws at her and learning things, new and old, along the way... sometimes.
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