As I’d watched Momma put ruffles on the hem and cute little tucks around the waist, I knew that once I put it on I’d look like a movie star. (It was silk and that made up for the awful color.) I was going to look like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody’s dream of what was right with the world. Hanging softly over the black Singer sewing machine, it looked like magic, and when people saw me wearing it they were going to run up to me and say, “Marguerite [sometimes it was ‘dear Marguerite’], forgive us, please, we didn’t know who you were,” and I would answer generously, “No, you couldn’t have

known. Of course I forgive you.”

Monica Suri on healthy parenting

the land was destroyed

Il est allé dans la brousse ramasser des fruits de Diospyros avec ses camarades.

dafa -- he/she.

ànd v. / ànd bi -- to be together, to go together; copulate; going together, fellowship; placenta.

ak -- and, with, etc.

moroom mi -- comrade of the same age group, equal, companion, neighbor.

yi -- the (plural).

àll bi -- large expanse of uninhabited land, bush; distant, as opposed to home.

ba -- the (indicates distance).

for+i (for) v. -- to pick up.

aloom bi -- edible fruit of Diospyros mespiliformis (aloom gi for the tree).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL4iHgp5ejk

Her eyes had mockery in them, and she laughed

why she can write when she is out?

American but hyphenated, viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic

Bi-Lingual, Bi-Cultural able to slip from "How's life?" to "Me'stan volviendo loca"

My daughter will be brought up to understand her true value. That’s a promise. As for all the little girls to be born around the world, the creation of these ads is an effort to show how imagination can change the conversation around their lives.