
A whiteness that's only skin deep
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Is There a Difference Between Whiteness and Albanism?
After reading that pamphlet, torry realized for the first time he had albanism. The questions regarding what i am and why i am the way that i am continued to linger in the back of my mind. I found it rather strange that i was as light as, if not lighter, than, a lot of my white friends, yet i was still labeled as blup. After i saw my birth certificate, i dismissed this idea. And then in college, he laid everything bar in a manifesto he posted on mine. Nowadays, every day, torry raced down the driveway, hoping to find that packet.
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