When my aunt, who is fair-skinned, gave birth to a dark-skinned child, her husband assumed the worst right away. He concluded that she must have cheated because both of them were white. He wouldn’t believe her no matter how much she vowed to be innocent. We never saw him again after he left that same week, leaving her and the...
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