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prussiaducky said:
In Cairo, people are SUPER racist. People of darker skin tones were seen as lower. I was 6, and coming from the USA, I was so confused when people gave me dirty looks. My first grade teacher, Miss Dina, always stood up for me. I made a few Friends who weren't judgemental, one of them being Salma. Salma is and was one of the best people I know. She was populaire because she was as tomboy as they get, and not a good populaire mind you. She fought constantly, and no one really knew why. She was cute but everyone hated her, yeah she was an untamed beast. She would say the harshest insults. She one jour saw me eating alone, and she approached me. We started to talk, and I realized soon enough that she was abused at accueil and that she had a bad home. She often left accueil for days at a time and went back for a little food, but her drunken parents didn't give two shits about her. She wasn't judgmental, but people thought she was a freak and the fact that everyone always avoided her added to he fuel. I invited her to my house once, when I saw her walking outside when it was super dark, and she so surprised to see our family eat together. We always let in our house, and she was my very best friend. Sure my Arabic sucked and her English sucked, but we could talk for hours upon hours. When ever she saw someone montrer aggression towards me, she'd beat them up. If I saw anyone talking bad about her, I'd tell them off in as many curse words as I knew. It was a weird relationship, a teachers pet and the class delinquent. But we used I always snuggle in lit and giggle when my mom told us to sleep already. She was a like a sister. The first time I ever saw her cry was when I had to go back to the USA. Our last sleep together was silent, we just kept crying silently with no giggles. I don't have contact with her, and she doesn't with me. Sometimes I get super sad just thinking about her...you know? We've been through so much in our two years together...sometimes I just want to fly to Cairo and snatch her and take her back to the USA with me so we can snuggle and talk like we used to. She probably moved on, I moved on...just really is sad
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