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beauty demands replication

remembering a memory from childhood: my mother trying to communicate in english and being misunderstood. i felt embarrassed at the lengths she goes to explain herself. she looks to me, hoping that i could bridge the gap. that's what i represent right? some amalgam of both cultures. and i didn't know how to describe it in english, or know how to ask for it, it was a true feeling of failure. all the words felt wrong.