BlackLatina

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My mother. The curls of her hair a mystery we could never find the end of with various ringlets creating a spongy wall around her head.   My black mother
I am fresh off the boat but I was born here and I'm looking for a place with my type of acceptance Of a girl with an afro and a bindilost and confused a muse to racists
Yes. I am Cuban and Puerto Rican. Yes. I am Black. To deny either one would be to deny who I am and where I come from. Skin like Brown Sugar. Thick curly hair. Yes. I am a Black Latina.
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