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What's Your Name Girl
In the story “What's your name, girl,”discusses a young girl that has this name but a friend of Mrs, Cullinan tries to change her name into something else and begins to judge her.The way maya feels towards this is that she doesn’t want her name to be changed because she doesn't like the same she likes her original name.The relationship that maya and Mrs, cullinan had wasn’t so good either , they would always fight about because of how perfect Mrs, cullinan wanted everything to be and she would tell maya thing.she's would act so perfect when it came to dishes and when maya would make a mistake she would get mad and tell her things. The attitude towards maya was very unfair and she didn’t deserve it, and the thing that makes it very unfair is
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