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my protagonist has brown skin and a fro, and she’s about to get her happily ever after.
It was empowering to create a world in which I was the center, the prize, the one desired.
It wasn’t like we could go to a bookstore and find many fluffy love stories with girls who looked like us in them.
My brother has disabilities. We used to call it special needs before a teacher pointed out that his needs aren’t special. They’re just his.
“Other people’s opinions of me aren’t really my business. And I think that situation says more about them than it does about me. So I’ve let it go.”
“I really need you to stop talking shit about my friend.”
And I keep catching him out of the corner of my eye, staring at me instead of the water in front of us, like I’m more deserving of his attention than the Pacific Ocean. It makes me feel like the biggest treasure.
“I’ve got all the lines for you, as many lines as you could possibly dream of, because you are deserving of lines from here to eternity.”
“I—uh, I made you your own ice cream.” “What?” He looks down sheepishly. “Yeah, it’s called Tessa’s Happily Ever After.
“And it’s dairy free . . . for your, uh, stomach problems.”
“And for real, for real, I like your heart. How you have this delicate baby one that registers every last change of mood and tone, tears apart every comment that someone makes. How you just . . . feel everything so much and so fully.
