Casey (US)

When I met my wife Ying in China her skin was very light. It was still light when she first got to Texas. At first she covered up but began to realize that under the Texas sun she soon overheated. She also began to notice that the women here had very dark tans because they ran around in shorts, T-shirts and halter tops and usually swam in a two piece swimsuit. She started dressing like the locals, hung out at the pool in a cute bikini and began to tan. Now she is so dark she is sometimes mistaken for a Native American. She loves the way she looks and so do I. When we went back to China her friends said she looked like a farmer, to which she replied: "No, I look like a Texan".

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