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The price of being dark-skinned

The price of being dark-skinned

by Priscilla Ngethe · Apr 27, 2016

There I sat, looking at Sanjana, a beautiful fair skinned, dark eyed and dark haired girl from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in North India, as she told me the almost like mystical myth of how she was born light.

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