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Fish Cheeks Story
The story Fish Cheeks is just an example of how many people act when faced with certain situations; The fact is no one can run from having to act different in times that call for it. Understanding where the young lady in the story fish cheeks isn’t that tough. In the story a young chines lady invites her family and an American boy that she has been having a crush on for a long time to dinner; but after figuring out what her mother had on the menu the Young lady becomes nerves and embarrassed, resulting in her losing herself and abounding her culture for that night. It’s never the right thing to do, but everybody does it. Growing up in America in a Haitian household that served nothing but Haitian dishes, I can remember plenty times as a child
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