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First Draft - Chinelo Okparanta

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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The Man Who Overcorrected

He really wants to identify, in bond with the black community in that's surrounding him. He ends up falling in love with a woman named miriam, and she is from nigeria. She keeps going to the nail salon and they keep saying, come back in three hours. Come back in an hour. They just don't want serve her. And i'm wondering if you can read this section when he's sort of reflecting on that, i was baffled and offended on her behalf. But then my guilt for having had the thought trickled out like syrup, and i felt it spread through my mind and build up at the perimeter of my conscience into something like shame. Shame because while i

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