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I believe that I can make through high school. The things that can stop me from finishing high school are. The fact that I have been through a lot of rough time as a child. What I mean by that is sometimes there’s a voice inside my head telling me that I can’t learn. What I know is there’s somewhere deep deep inside that wants to hatch out of the shell that I’m in, and there’s one part of me that wants to be mad all the time. The thing that keeps me going is. That my birth mom tried her hardest to stop doing drugs. Sometimes when people say,” I don’t love you.” I fell unloved so I start to fell bad about myself. Then sometimes I have flash backs of people saying those things. I fight those flash backs everyday. By talking to my mom about how I fell makes me be able to get my feelings out. I image my graduation day would look like. Me walking out of the school door s having a great flash backs me knowing how hard I work to get here. Knowing the people that helped me. My Mom, Dad , my sisters Destiny, Amanda,Dana,Megan,Faith,Kelly,Joy,and I can’t forget God. I’d walk out the those doors looking at all those people smiling, laughing, and maybe my two moms crying. Right then I’ll know they are all proud of me for keep moving forward. What I would learn from that journey is that I got to see myself make something out of me. Even though things can be hard I never gave up because I had a lot of people at my side.
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