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“I seldom thought of myself as a girl, a category that did not mean much to me… Once I was striding on the wall of our backyard to get a good view of our neighborhood. My mother called, "Get down!
How can you little girl climb the wall? What terrible manners!" I looked at her without budging an inch, retorting in my mind,
"Mom is just feudal. Why can't a little girl climb the wall?” 😭