You REALLY don’t look like her!

Thais Machado Teixeira
Brazil

My mom is black. My dad is white. I am not fair skinned enough to be white or dark enough to be black. Still, people believe that I’m my father’s daughter, but when I show them my mom I have to explain she married a white man so they can believe we’re family.


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