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Teen Ink Magazine, November 2002 : Pride Articles

Conversation with a Straight Person
Ithappens all the time)

Come and talk to me.
I won't bite.
Yeah, sowhat if I like girls?
No, you are not my type of girl.
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Racism
18 years ago my aunt, Melanie, married a black man, Nicholas. This caused muchcontroversy in my family. My grandfather, always a strict Catholic, rejected themarriage from the beginning.
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Untitled
After ahard morning of sounding out words in picture books,
I skipped through thefluorescent-lit lunchroom to the table where you sat.
Teasingly, you ruinedthe pride I had in my new pink lunch pail.
You didn't see, but you made me cryand I ate alone.
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