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I've been infatuated with Bollywood
movies ever since I was a little girl um
the whole concept of girl meets guy they
fall in love conflict arises and
everything's always okay and in between
you get to run around trees and go on
top of a mountain and do a mountain
dance and in third grade I found Kyle
Wagner my first crush and he gave me my
first Valentine's Day card and all I
could think about was well now we hold
hands because he likes me and so when I
went to go do so he yelled out no that
didn't work out and then in sixth grade
I met Esteban Fernandez and he picked up
my books for me and that probably meant
he liked me so I went to go give him a
kiss and he shoved me so hard I fell off
my seat and then in 10th grade I met
Americana
he was Pakistani I was Bengali one day
he walked up to me and he gave me a
paper heart and in the heart it said the
meaty kagaz got the lemon dough which
meant be the pen to my paper everything
was so perfect
we were both South Asian we were Muslim
we spoke or do and I was dark-skinned
and he was light-skinned and I didn't
think that was a big deal but then I met
his mother Surya and she hated me I
wasn't skinny enough
I wasn't fair enough I wasn't rich
enough
I was nothing that she wanted seemed
Muslim parents tend to arrange marriages
and me and Amer our hearts arranged us
and so I was determined to win over her
heart no matter what cuz love conquers
all this was just like a small little
conflict it wouldn't matter
and I tried I tried so hard for five
years I started bleaching my skin I
started growing out my hair I did
anything and everything to please her
and to win her over
and then one day I found a glamour shot
of some voluptuous girl in his
pillowcase and I was a picture of his
cousin I couldn't really understand I
was not gonna make mountains out of
molehills so I let it go I shut down
I lost my opinions and I lost myself and
then after five years I lost him his
whole family took a trip to Pakistan and
after they left four days later I got a
cryptic text message that said Pablo
said your stomach journa doob now game
Cabo sage or na hoto MacDowell game
don't form relationships with your
fantasy you won't be able to wake up and
if you do so you'll die in reality and I
knew what it meant I just didn't want to
accept it two days after that message I
went online and I saw that Mara was now
married to his first cousin in reality
Thank You Facebook and I don't know what
to do I got myself up after crying and
did everything that America's mother
told me not to do I cut my hair I
started going to concerts
made a ton of gay friends and I did
everything I joined student government I
stayed out and partied late and I felt
free I was alone but I felt free and
that that epic moment I was constantly
looking for as a kid I found it I found
it after my breakup I let go of my
delusion and fell in love with my
reality and even though I don't have a
partner to dance on a mountain with I
have a mountain and I danced to my own
tune and I'll keep dancing away without
any judgement
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