You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat Wood Adjustable snap closure

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You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat Wood Adjustable snap closureOn a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12yearold PalestinianAmerican girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mothers response only intensifies a sense of shame: You exist too much, she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes that