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Where Are You From?

It's such a loaded question, and on the days when I'm exhausted my answer is sarcastic.  "Mars." I say, under my breath. It's a rather fitting answer considering how much the question can make me feel like an alien in my own skin.  The people who understand my humour laugh whereas others do a double take. "No, I mean where are you from originally?"  I'm so used to it now that I have the script down pat and can spit it out in less than three minutes. "I was born in the UK, when I was ten my family and I moved to the US, we lived on the west coast and on the east coast and I've been back in the UK, in Manchester, for six months so far. I come from a mixed race family, my genetic background is half Indian, half African and British.  No, I've never been to Africa but, yes, I do really want to go. I'm almost twenty-nine and and no I don't have any children nor do I want them."  "I believe in all religions and respect them al...