10 Things People Don’t Know About My (Less Than Privileged) Passport

Ximena Restrepo
Nov 1 · 8 min read
Photo by Agus Dietrich on Unsplash

I have a Colombian passport. My friends know that mostly because I always make a point of introducing myself as Colombian. I’m short, my hair is black and curly, I look pretty Colombian, in my opinion, like, I can pull off the title.

“Why do I have this super Americanized accent, you ask?” “Oh, well…” I’ll say, acting shocked at the, not at all…

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Ximena Restrepo

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Writer, traveler, and Colombian-American hybrid. Living in Taipei after almost 10 years in Medellin, Colombia.

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