Personal Narrative: The Person Who I Am Today

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For an 18 year old person I have been through a lot for my age, there have been many ups and downs that I’ve had to struggle through. There is one instance in particular that I can remember that helped shape me culturally to who I am today. In middle school we had a soccer team, and soccer for me is life, but I had one problem I was a slow player because I was fat and not really athletic. In sixth grade I tried out and I did not make it, seventh grade I tried out again still did not make it. Many parents and kids would point out that I was not good enough for the team and that I was fat (most people never really pointed it out but I knew they thought that). This event of not making the middle school soccer team for two years in a row really

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