"I told someone there that I wanted to kill myself, so I had to wear a special shirt, alerting everyone that I was on suicide watch, until they let me go home a few days later.Around that time, I read The Color of Water, James McBride’s memoir about his white mother’s life, in which he tries to understand his identity as a Black man."
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