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Looks

I had an Aryan friend once tell me, "Aren't you supposed to be hairless since you are Mongolian and all?". She had witnessed my hairy hands which I hadn't yet started to shave. I think that must've been the comment that triggered a life long obsession with hair removal. I'm saying life-long because even though I do it seasonally and very sporadically at that, I still do it. I know people in the west use the term "Asian" to describe anyone who has chinky eyes but in my country, we use the term "Mongolian". And the Mongolians in my country can have the features of someone who white people call the "brown" people. So if you think about it, I drew the short end of the stick since I am brown, short, hairy and have bad hair. Let's get back to the hairy bit. When I was in school, I fell into that category of girls who were studious and didn't care about their looks. Also our school was very strict about girls doing adult t