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Race & Romance in America

Mira Jacob
I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I’d been the wrong color in America my whole life. But it hurt worse somehow, knowing it was the same in a country full of people who (I had thought) looked like me.

FAIR & LOVELY

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AMERICAN LOVE

 
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BIG CITY ROMANCE

 
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Excerpted from Mira Jacob’s Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, published by Random House.

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