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I decked myself out in an oversized silk kimono I had found at a church jumble sale, a beautiful bloodred thing covered with Chinese dragons and mystical markings. I plastered my face with yellow chalk and stretched a thin elastic round my head to pull my eyes up at the corners.
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This is not an isolated thing. This is a whole extended flashback thing. Complete with terrible phonetically written accent.
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*blinks slowly* Oh hell no.
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I think I clipped one example of the accent. I think I also clipped the line where our lovely narrator says something about fakirs in India before the British came and civilized them.
It came pretty ou…
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