Dear Young Hafeezah,<\/p>\n
It was the year of 1990; you were always a quiet child with an active imagination.<\/p>\n
I watched you walked down the halls of Dubose Middle School trying to make yourself invisible.<\/p>\n
Each day you wanted to become someone else instead of who you were.<\/p>\n
Your head was covered in long pigtails with different color hair clamps on the end.<\/p>\n
You were tall and thin in statue almost equivalent to the shape of a boy.<\/p>\n
You wondered how the same girls your age could have curves and breasts.<\/p>\n
You secretly wanted to be like them laughing on the courtyard with their equally curvy friends.<\/p>\n
You started the school year late because of Hugo and on top of that you were a transfer.<\/p>\n
It was a relentless form of torture playing the game of disappearing and reappearing each day.<\/p>\n
I often wondered how you survived, and how many times you cried not to return to school the<\/p>\n
next day. The reality is you were simply magical waiting patiently for someone to say, \u201cHafeezah can you<\/p>\n
come out and play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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