Piss Susan Saddens Short Story

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The short story, Piss, by Sara Middleton saddens me for many reasons. To begin with, it gave me a flashback to when I was young. What Sara went through, I went through; I know exactly how she felt. It was mentioned that Sara entered her 5th year in school this year; thus, I assumed her age was 9 or 10 years old, and she still peed herself every night. She got bullied from almost everyone around her. She felt lonely, miserable, and unwanted. On the other side, when I entered my 3rd year in school, I was 7 years old, and I used to still piss my pants every once in a while. To my mother, it was unacceptable that up until this day, I would piss; same as Sara, to her father, it was not okay to piss at this age. Furthermore, Sara had no runaway.

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