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• My grandmother’s support – and Creole cooking – helped me to love myself when I didn’t know how

  08-11-2023 16:00
  
  When I felt lonely growing up, my grandmother’s company and cuisine were a soothing balmMy grandmother collected me from school every day and invariably brought me along to pick up any missing ingredients for dinner. I was a dark-skinned child with thick, curly hair, and she could have passed for white. People often didn’t know what to make of us, but rarely questioned our relationship aloud.Once, at Schwegmann’s, our local grocery store, the cashier looked from me to my grandm
  
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• Going ‘delulu’: being delusional is the new manifesting

  08-11-2023 14:00
  
  The idea, according to TikTok, is to set wild expectations for yourself – and convince your mind to believe in themIn the 1950s, Norman Vincent Peale called it “positive thinking”. In the noughties, Oprah promoted it through her talkshow as “manifesting”. Just six or so months ago, TikTok dubbed it “lucky girl syndrome”.The belief that “if you think it, it will come” has long been popular among the young and hopeful. Now it has another name:
  
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