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onetime2 · 10-09-2003, 05:05 AM

Not very often although I seem to notice it more from members of her nationality than my own. I'm white (Irish/Czech) and she looks Korean but is also Italian and a few other things.

It's sometimes a little bit funny in our conversations because she thinks of herself as white and expects that everyone else thinks of her that way but she clearly has more Korean than Anglo features.

On a side track, the worst looks I got were earlier this year. She had undergone brain surgery and one eye was left temporarily paralyzed. Sometimes (depending on how tired she was) it was fully closed while other times it was slightly opened with the eye pointed off to her left. She got quite a few looks when we'd go out in public. People would first look at her with a little sympathy and then when they noticed me, you could see the lightbulb click in their head. This 5'3 100lb asian girl must have been beaten up by the 5'10" 200lb asshole boyfriend. She was freaked out about the stares because she was very self conscious about the way she looked. Thankfully her eye is almost back to 100% with just a little dilation and some slight double vision which is expected to go away in the coming months.

--Paul

10-09-2003, 05:05 AM	#13 (permalink)
onetime2 Junkie Location: NJ	Not very often although I seem to notice it more from members of her nationality than my own. I'm white (Irish/Czech) and she looks Korean but is also Italian and a few other things. It's sometimes a little bit funny in our conversations because she thinks of herself as white and expects that everyone else thinks of her that way but she clearly has more Korean than Anglo features. On a side track, the worst looks I got were earlier this year. She had undergone brain surgery and one eye was left temporarily paralyzed. Sometimes (depending on how tired she was) it was fully closed while other times it was slightly opened with the eye pointed off to her left. She got quite a few looks when we'd go out in public. People would first look at her with a little sympathy and then when they noticed me, you could see the lightbulb click in their head. This 5'3 100lb asian girl must have been beaten up by the 5'10" 200lb asshole boyfriend. She was freaked out about the stares because she was very self conscious about the way she looked. Thankfully her eye is almost back to 100% with just a little dilation and some slight double vision which is expected to go away in the coming months. --Paul __________________ Strive to be more curious than ignorant.