Popular sovereignty expressed what belief?

that all former slaves presently living in a free state were officially freedmen
that a territory itself should decide if it wants to allow slavery within its borders
that even if a slave escaped to a free state, he could never be a freedman
that congress should decide whether a state is a free state or a slave state

so the story tells of someone named kaushik choudhuri, but he does not narrate the story, a girl named hema does. hema tells the story in a second person point of view because you (the reader) are supposed to be the boy named kaushik.

here's an excerpt i found: "i was ushered into the fitting room, your mother watching approvingly as i took off my coat and sweater and tried on the bra."

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