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I am in America and it’s my favorite thing in the world. It’s a place called Orlando, Florida, and they say there are alligators around, but I’ve yet to see one. I’ve met Mickey Mouse and Minnie too, and Snow White and a few of the dwarves. Tomorrow we’ll go back to Disney World to see the rest of it and probably meet Cinderella.
Abu has given me the restaurant’s address and I am plotting it carefully on a map in the lobby of the Holiday Inn where we are staying. The last time my brother, Ali, mapped our route we ended up in circles while Abu yelled at us for a couple of hours. But I don’t know how to blow-dry my hair like hers. It is big, curly, coarse, and impossibly frizzy, so even when I try it just gets bigger. That’s why I tie my hair up, so it looks straighter, more like hers, and now her reaction confuses me. How can she tell me she loves my hair frizzy and wild, that I should always wear it like that, when hers is so perfectly smooth?
She doesn’t dress like anyone I know either. Her skin shimmers and there is so much of it to look at. Unlike my T-shirt and Ama’s blouse, her shirt begins halfway down her front and has no sleeves. A golden necklace says “Jessica” in cursive across her collarbone, and I think of Jessica from. The Owl and its eyes make an appearance on her shirt, and I suspect there is even more cleverness to them than I originally thought.
We order and we eat, and Abu is in a good mood. Laughing and smiling with Ama and us, he is the Abu we love, not the one from earlier asking about the route to the restaurant. My parents are excessively kind to Jessica, saying please and thank you and “sorry to bother you but,” every chance they get. This is not how they treat the waiters at restaurants in Lahore. When we finish eating and before we pay the bill, Abu politely requests a photo with Jessica.
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