For example, one student she worked with wrote an essay about bonding with her mother during drives to gymnastics practice ... for the supplemental essay questions,” she says.

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A year later, he is publishing The Message, a book of four essays; the first ... he hears about the widespread practice of skin-bleaching in Senegal. “The valuing of light skin was obviously ...

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