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vampy

i walked into a shop i frequent this afternoon and a customer at the counter turned and looked at me and said, without prompt or me saying a word, “where are you from? you look very european”.  anyone close to me knows that this question gets asked of me quite often and that i am always confused by it – what is it that makes me look not-American enough that strangers frequently ask me this question?  the woman asking had a european accent herself, and when i smiled she said “oh! and you have fangs too.  just like me!”,  pointing to her teeth. i never had braces or my teeth straightened, and if you look closely it’s true, i do have fangs. just like her.  i asked her where she was from and she said Poland, which made me wonder for a second if part of Transylvania was in Poland, but i looked it up and it wasn’t. but maybe i have more Romanian blood than i know about.

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