![]() ![]() Kiese laughs at my story and I tell him that my favorite part of his new book, Heavy: An American Memoir, is when he writes about how white people’s words don’t weigh enough for him, but words like “finna” do. RELATED: My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK I think he probably expected at least some polite laughter from us, but I just told him he can stay right in Philly and don’t come down south, ain’t nobody ask him nothing. The driver turned his head and told us that people from the South “talk funny,” words and phrases like “finna” and “post to be” sound weird to him. Our Uber driver overheard a conversation between myself, a child of the Carolinas, and my friend, the most Texas Texan I know, in which she told me with her lovely, raspy, twangy voice that what I won’t finna do was worry about her and her business. I tell him about my recent trip up to Philly and what happened on the way back. ![]() This essay discusses child abuse, sexual violence, addiction, and extreme weight loss ![]()
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