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Boys at my school make fun of me and say I look like a girl, says 12-year-old Harpreet Singh Dhariwal of Thornhill
Boys at my school make fun of me and say I look like a girl, says 12-year-old Harpreet Singh Dhariwal of Thornhill

Boys at my school make fun of me and say I look like a girl, says 12-year-old Harpreet Singh Dhariwal of Thornhill

Date11/6/1977
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Original Toronto Star caption: Boys at my school make fun of me and say I look like a girl; says 12-year-old Harpreet Singh Dhariwal of Thornhill. It gets me into a lot of fights; I can tell you. Dhariwal; who wears traditional Jura hair knot on head; was one of an estimated 2;000 Asians who protested racism yesterday.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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      Object NumberTSPA_0012526F
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