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So the author has a lot of different experiences with
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language, from learning, growing up, speaking Farsi to moving to
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America and learning English because she's learned English before.
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Um, you know, when she was young for 12 years
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old, she was able to learn it without an accent.
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But this brought up some certain issues when she was
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able to bring her change her name.
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Okay, so in the chapter get called the F word.
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The author uses Julius, her middle name, and people assume
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that she's American and it really makes her life easier
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in the short term, allows her to fit in, and
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you might consider that she's actually giving up something that's
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important to her.
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Her real meaningful Persian name, replacing it with an American
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name to help her fit in.