My PRIVILEGED upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she WOULD always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a FINER FATE and home than any other she could have had.
Read MoreThe danger I faced was not ACCEPTED as REASONABLE grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who DESPITE being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an ALTERNATIVE solution.
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