Today's OneWord: Humanity

After the madness of the game and witnessing just how many racist classmates I really had, I heard a lot of friends use the line, "Well, there goes my faith in humanity." However, given that my faith in humanity was pretty meager to begin me, the levels of said confidence didn't exactly fluctuate. Besides, half of my immediate family was grossly racist - which was why I hadn't told them about my girlfriend Shannon, who put all the other girls at school, black or white, to shame.

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