That damn accent. That beautiful accent

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“Where are you from?” they ask me the minute I open my mouth.

All it would take is one word, a simple hello, and they would immediately discover that I’m not one of them, that I’m a transplant from a faraway land.

After seventeen years of living in the US, I still haven’t figured out how to pronounce one American word correctly before revealing my true colors, my…