Wow, you speak English really well!

Screen-shot-2013-05-16-at-9.30.32-PMSharmila Guha,
Oakland, CA.

It was my first summer job after high school. A man in the lunch room one day tried to ask shy me this odd questions… which just left me stunned. I was born and raised in Los Angeles; why wouldn’t I speak English well? I guess the “dad from India and mom from Philippines” thing really confuses people.


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