Ayaan’s been referring to people by the colour of their clothes. The guy with a red shirt becomes “the red guy” and the girl with yellow pants becomes the “yellow girl”.
Imagine my horror when at a grocery store we see an interracial couple (the girl with darker pigmentation had black shirt and the Caucasian guy had white shirt on). Ayaan points at them and yells out: “look, black girl and white guy.”
I so wanted the Earth to swallow me at that moment.
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