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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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