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extrinsic facerpt from "Americanal" by Chimamanda Ngon Adichiel
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As they walked, she wanted
to tell Obinze that she didn't know what it
meant to "be on your mother's passport,"
that her mother didn't even have a
passport. But she said nothing, walking
beside him in silence. He fit here, in this
school, much more than she did. She was
popular, always on every party list, and
always announced, during assembly, as
one of the first three" in her class, yet she
felt sheathed in a translucent haze of
difference. She would not be here if she
had not done so well on the entrance
examination, if her father had not been
determined that she would go to "a school
that builds both character and career." Her
primary school had been different, full of
children like her, whose parents were
teachers and civil servants
'She didn't know what it meant to be on your mother's passport, that her mother
didn't even have a passport
O
'He fit here, in this school, much more than she did
'Her primary school had been different, full of children like her, whose parents were
teachers and civil servants:
O
'She would not be here if she had not done so well on the entrance examination