Merry reminds the family of themselves. Of their privilege. Of what they have. In America they are considered brown. You become attached to that. You are given a name and you respond to it. They are brown in America. There is something self-righteous that lives alongside that marginalization, the mispronounced names, the Your English is so . . . , the sideways glances in department stores. But there are browner bodies out there. There are women who take care of your grandfather while you’re thousands of miles away—or ten minutes away—women whose own families are thousands of miles away, women
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