The Plastered Smile
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This short story is about a dark-skinned female, Tasha, who is a student at Harvard University. Her parents are both neurosurgeons and CEO's of their own hospital. Her experiences will be shaped based on her race/complexion and will question her relationships with other races. This story gives my idea of the flip side to the normalized version of the "black experience;"that all black people grew up poor in struggling communities.
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