“I want to be peach. I don’t think brown skin is… beautiful.”
“Mama, Mama, Mama! Can I have that?” I glanced up in the middle of the French supermarket we were in, meandering through highways of Camembert and baguettes and Côtes du Rhône, to see what Leela was pointing at.
What did Leela think about her skin colour, I wondered, that she wanted a blonde hair extension? Did she think she was white? Was it true that children had no idea that people came in different colours? “You mean you want to dye your hair blonde one day?” I replied. It was then my caramel-coloured child told me how she really felt. A confession that made my entire being implode like a dying star running out of energy, collapsing in on itself.
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