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Your full name looks like a brazilian. Natasha even being russian name it's very comum in Brazil. Mascarenhas is a portuguese surname.

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Thank you for this really amazing post. I love how you so closely examine your experience and are able to articulate the subtleties. This is excellent.

"while i’ve known this for my entire life, i am only just now starting to grasp what that really means beyond a punchline of fitting in."

I really resonate with how you articulate that sentence. Like there are these identity wrinkles that rise internally throughout life and then are forced to surface into writing when much more rumination is demanded.

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