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By Misti Date: 2005 Jun 17 Comment on this Work [[2005.06.17.02.51.25360]] |
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grew up thinking I had something to be proud of Hold Your Head High You're a Rainwater You've Got Strong Blood that was daddy talking bullshit but I bought it at the time blushing, probably a quarter Cherokee I was told which explained my high cheekbones black hair and inability to play those reindeer games at Goddard Junior High with those silly little Swatch watch wearing bitches in braces with the blond perms and parents always away on vacation so I bought Cherokee books tried to learn the Cherokee alphabet fantasized about visiting North Carolina now I learn no one in my family really has a clue I do a Google on the origins of Rainwater one site says there are many theories Rainwater could be Cherokee, true but Rainwater could also be: Flemish-Dutch English German Jewish now I want to lie because I don't really know I want to tell anyone who asks that I am Jewish Comanche so ya better play nice and respect my deceptively white ass because you see I have my sorrows. |