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The Fat Lady of the Circus
Posted by upwritersclub on May 5, 2008
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Duties by Sarah Matias
It is every mother’s duty to tell her daughter that she is beautiful,
and if this is impossible, she has to make her daughter beautiful
because mothers shouldn’t lie, and so my mother would
scrub my high-noon-sun-kissed skin twice a day with liquid
whitening soap she bought from an officemate who had a sister
working in some Asian country doing God-knows-what.
Posted by upwritersclub on May 4, 2008
http://upwritersclub.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/duties/
