received. I went home to tell her “Mama I got good news I got a full scholarship to FSU! “I’m proud of you baby congrats.” It was the day of graduation I couldn’t wait I was tired of waking up at 7AM. As I looked in the crowd I saw my mom crying tears of joy. I start reminiscing about high school all the good and bad things I went through, I just wanted to put it in the past and move on. I started thinking to myself I wonder what summer was going to bring my entire childhood friend’s I grew up either
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In the essay, Bombs Bursting in Air, Beth Johnson tells her children of a tragedy that a close friend of theirs is experiencing. The tragedy is that their daughters playmate, Shannon, bumped her head sledding and during the doctors examination, they found a tumor that requires surgery. She also recollects, in great detail, past tragedies that have happened in her own life, starting with memories of when she was a child and progressing throughout her adult years. Ultimately, Shannon is ok after the
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Women, they lie. Sometimes to get a smile on our face, and sometimes to get a giggle out of their babies. You may never tell how deceitful they can be, just how ruthlessly selfish their souls can get to stop the tears running down from their mothers cheeks. They are a lost cause of nature - weaker to male in material but arrogantly, prejudiced about their nursing instincts. What has hell got against them? Their pit of secrets is deeper than the darkest hole any hell of any religion possesses
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meet the 2015 High Kick State Champions in class AA. With a ranking point score of seven point five, Your State Champion is… SARTELL- ST.STEPHEN!!!” I grabbed the person closest to me and hugged them while jumping up and down, screaming and crying tears of joy. All of our hard work had finally paid off! The Sartell Sabre Dance Team made its way to the center of the court to receive our blue medals. The only thing going through my mind while I was waiting in line to receive my medal was, “Is this real
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and how it can tear people apart. It helped to show how much power love can have over a person. Even after Romeo killed Juliet’s beloved cousin, she loved him anyway, rather than hating him. But hate ruins them in other ways, because of the hate between their families, they couldn’t truly be together, but they tried so hard anyway, that they died for it. “Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. And
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smallpox and cowpox I have been struggling. Struggling with what? You may be asking yourself. Well ever since our son had died I have been crying everyday since you’ve been gone and I can’t go on with you filled with joy and me filled with sadness. These long years with you have made my life a joy but I can’t do this anymore. Without someone to look after and someone to talk to everyday I have been depressed! I want you to know that I will always care about you and love you! I have decided to end my journey
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led him to a sanitarium. A sanitarium where suicide attempts were undertaken multiple times. "He would have succeeded had not an envious fellow-patient thought he was learning to fly and stopped him just in time. What he really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape." In addition to the multiple suicide attempts, the twenty- two year old, thought everything was against him. "All around him, there are spies. Some of them are detached observers, like glass surfaces and still pools;
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I try to forget his features but they haunt me. I sense his dark eyes following my movements from the bedside table, but I cannot bear to take the photo down, it feels like betrayal. I look at the photo. His fragile, skeletal form sinks into the armchair that lives downstairs, almost swallowing him. Sometimes I regret moving back into our house after all that's happened, but deep down my love for him still exists, even though he will never have the chance to hear me say it. I glance down at my left
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The warm golden sun was shining brightly at the Wadsworth Homestead in Geneseo New York. Soon to souls from opposite ends of the country would unite. The groom awaited in anticipation. Trying desperately to focus on the tasks before him, but he was too busy bursting with excitement. Tom’s pacing was meet with a moment of stillness upon opening the gift Samantha had left for him. Two custom made Bills jerseys. Complete with their wedding date and new last name. The girls arrived in matching silk
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him but he was gone. I took off his medal of honor, as they took him away. I knew that was the last time I would see him, I was sobbing uncontrollably. I cried, sitting there on that cold wet reddened grass. It was now stained with his blood and my tears. “Until next time”, I muttered, now sitting here alone with my thoughts. Alone with my thoughts and no one to talk to, I began reminiscing about when we first met, felt like only yesterday we had met. It was back on that first day of college. I remember
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