a teenager in Ontario was killed by her father, friends say she was leading a double life for some time, wearing her hijab at home, taking it off when she went to school. It brings back memories of my childhood in Vancouver, as a little Swiss immigrant. My mother dressed me in dark home knitted woolen tights + heavy imported broque clod-hoppers while all the other girls wore snappy little white socks and cool pointed shoes. I saved my allowence + bought little white "popcorn" socks + (I now think) hideous cheap green pointed shoes with big gold buckles. Every morning I ran to (elementary) school to the washroom + changed out of my woolen tights + broques into my "Canadian" socks + shoes + with a huge sense of relief felt normal even though I was still saddled with a very peculiar name in a world of Kathys + Debbies+ Wendys...
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