When I was seven, I moved to a place where nobody looked like me. I didn’t have any friends, I didn’t know English, and I had a really weird name. Yes, my name is legally Xin Xin. In Chinese it translates to “spicy happy” and I love that my parents named me that. It was painful when other kids made fun of it and I was so embarrassed that I used an American nickname for more than a decade.
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