I never dodged reading out loud in class. I was praying the teacher would pick the longest paragraph so I could show off my vocabulary and pronunciation. 😭😭
It was the summer before freshman year of college and I knew I had to do it bc I truly wanted to be myself. I contemplated that whole summer on how I was gonna do it, on tumblr looking up ways and all 😭. Wrote a letter, sat my mom down and read it, all for her to say she knew 🤣