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Junot Díaz Reads How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)

The New Yorker: Fiction

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How to Make a First Date a Success

Don't let her speak on it and when you are finished eating, walk back through the neighborhood. A local girl may have hips and a thick ass, but she won't be quick about letting you touch. Never lose a fight on a first date where that will be the end of it. Watch TV but stay alert. Sip some of the rum your father left in the cabinet which nobody touches. She'll drink enough to make her brave. The skies will be magnificent. Polluits have made Jersey sunsets one of the wonders of the world. But usually, usually it won't work this way. You're the only kind of black guy who asked me out. Don't fall asleep

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