Ifemelu said, “I bet she’s an interesting woman if she’d just be herself. I don’t need her to over-assure me that she likes black people.” And Curt said it was not about race, it was just that his aunt was hyperaware of difference, any difference. “She would have done the exact same thing if I had turned up with a blond Russian,” he said. Of course his aunt would not have done the same thing with a blond Russian. A blond Russian was white, and his aunt would not feel the need to prove that she liked people who looked like the blond Russian. But Ifemelu did not tell Curt this because she wished
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