I don’t even know what I am apologizing for in the first place, but maybe it’s because all my life, I always have. White people have always said my laugh was too loud. “You need to keep it down; why do you laugh so loudly? It’s a distraction.”
It’s made me overly conscious up to the point of suppressing my laughter, but that m…
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