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  1. Public Bookmark 76

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    He tried to explain to Mother once, the way his skin crawled when his hair brushed the back of his neck or someone called him pretty. She had sat patiently, arms wrapped around his middle under their favorite tree, while he struggled to find the words to explain why he wasn’t her daughter. She had hummed softly as if she understood while brushing a stray hair from his forehead. “I love you, Zuko.” She had murmured softly just for him. “Please don’t tell anyone else, okay? It’ll be our secret. Promise me.”

    He remembers how soft she touched him; how gentle she had been as she waited for him to promise to hide himself. He was still young but he understood mother’s promises were always to protect him, especially when they hurt.

    “I promise.”

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    Zuko reclaims the broken body his parents gave him one haircut at a time.

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  2. Public Bookmark 57

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    Zuko lies through her teeth and tells Uncle that she’s a boy. The words taste cold and ashen in her mouth, and she can’t tell if he believes her or not.

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  3. Public Bookmark 74

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    Zuko didn't remember his childhood.

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  4. Public Bookmark 8

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    Nanuq looks so much like his mother, with his wide eyes, his flat, wide nose, and soft rounded cheeks paint him a perfect replica of Bato’s sister in her youth. Bato looks at him for a moment, wonders what some of the village elders must think when they see him and Nanuq together. Bato, aged and tired, with the ghost of his childhood sister.

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  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    Gender and personhood are not defined by the shape of the body you were born into, nor the cruel words of an even crueller father, ringing in your ears thought that time has long passed. Sometimes, Zuko finds that hard to remember.

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