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Confidently Chubby


          She still vivdly remembered the last day of school

          when Roy, a dark-skinned, medium-built boy with
          eyes as cold as river stones had tripped her and

          she had rolled down a dusty flight of stairs.


          “Sue!”,  her  thoughts  were  interrupted  by  the

          impatient  shout  of  her  mother  from  the

          bathroom  door.  Sue  Lee’s  mother  was  short,
          extremely chubby with hair as black as coal. Sue

          Lee’s  friend  Shania  often said  that  Susan  was  as

          fat as a pig. But in Sue Lee’s eyes, her mother was

          just perfect.


          “You’re going to be late!” Susan yelled.


          Sue  quickly  emerged  from  the  water  and

          wrapped her chubby frame with a towel way too

          small  for  her  one-hundred-pound  body.    She

          sluggishly  walked  to  her  rectangular-shaped

          mirror in the corner of the room. She sometimes
          referred to this mirror as her magic mirror. When

          she  looked  into  this  mirror,  she  saw  two  bright

          nicely-shaped  brown  eyes  staring  back,  long

          black  shiny  silky  hair,  and  a  tall  slender


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