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Halah Butt

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Halah Butt is a forever-aspiring writer with a background in copywriting. She studied English Literature and Professional Writing at the University of Toronto and has been published in various anthologies including "Muslim American Writers at Home", "The Soapbox Press Vol II and Vol VI", and "What if Someone Sees Us?" Halah currently resides in Michigan with her husband, daughter, and cat.

It was pink. The cupcake filling was pink. In all honesty, I was expecting blue. For some reason I always thought that we’d have a boy first. Not in a gender-biased way, but in an “our family kept having dreams it was a boy so it altered our expectations” way.