... go around the edge of the hot tub. I now walk around to the side of the hot tub and try to put the hot tub cover back where it belongs. I struggle for a few minutes by myself and eventually get it on. I start to walk inside. I stop in the doorway. I turn around and close my eyes. I want to remember how this experience felt so that on days when ... I am stressed, I can remember how it felt. I can pretend to flatten all those tight knots ... in my shoulders, I can pretend to take away all the pressure built up in my head, and ... ...

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... grade. After the teachers exchanged a few uneasy glances, we left Pen Ryn. I fell asleep on the bus, so I don't remember much about the ride to the Statue of Liberty. I woke up with a bout ten minutes to go in our ride, just in time to see the heart of the city. I breathed a glimpse of Manhattan. With only a few seconds of awe, we arrived at our ... one else went down and I definitely didn't want to be the only one to back out now. We started up the spiral staircase. The railing on the side of the staircase only came up a few inches above my knees. With every step I took, my knees start...

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... all but one button on my shirt buttoned up. I am beautiful. I am a goddess. I weight 4 pounds less than I did the night before. I walk by the neighbor's door, who my best friend acts all too familiar with. She's Playing loud music and banging around in her room as I pass. I get ... not waiting out front as usual. So that's good too. I cross the first street and I feel good. The second street, feeling good still. As I walk toward Smith street street, I pass a skinny blonde in a nail polish Jetta Porsche waiting at the light, dialing her mobile phone and chewing on something that she ... ...

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... your life, though they hide in the dark clouds. And no one can stop you. Oh, my God! Through the phantasmagoric menu and the music, I remember the CD that is made by Bjork! Except for the overture, I cannot feel many things from the other pieces. But that is enough, because this overture ... of your life, few people can receive it peacefully. But no matter you become crazy or not, you had to face it. So you began to learn how to live in the endless darkness: remember how many fights of steps and where they are you will meet on your loads, how many paces between the ... any especial me...

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... and I soon became more like father and daughter than employees. Every afternoon was reserved for our long conversations about life and our experiences. I remember a conversation one day that we were having about my mom and sister. Like Gage, "I was trying to put their painful memories behind me- (204) but he gently coaxed me into telling him how they both treated me. I explained ... and I had been sharing for the past two years with a newfound sense of determination. I had just been proposed to by my boyfriend and who else should walk me down that aisle proudly and give his blessing to ...

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... of a responsibility. After all, I am guiding someone whom I know nothing about. I wonder how he feels having a stranger guiding him? I remember doing similar project last year in my English class with Mrs. DelBourgo. For our assignment we had to walk around the campus without speaking to anyone. That assignment was a breeze for me because I don't really know anyone at this school. Also, I"m not much of ... a talker, I like to sit and observe things rather than act on them right away. It's my turn now, and it came ... . As the blindfold is being place over my eyes a sense of excitement f...

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... I don't have to go to SACC today and we were going to be walking home. I just wanted to drop off my rollerblades in the SACC room because it was really tiring trying to carry them to school and I knew that I would have to do it all over again the next day. It was a quiet walk home that day. ... The silence was something I had never experienced before. There was something about the smell in the air and its eerie calmness. That's something that will never leave my memory. It was a feeling that I had never felt before, when you can feel it in the air, sense what is about to happen isn't goi...

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... remember coming home from school and playing until I thought it was time for my daddy to get off work. I would play with my dolls, take my puppy and my three-year-old brother for a walk in my little red wagon, and jump on the trampoling. However, the highight of my day consisted of waiting by the door for my daddy to ... come home from the woods. My daddy would pull into the driveway at 6:15 every evening. I would run for him with my arms wide open as the door to ... his little blue Isuzu cracked. My daddy would look at me smiling, and I was so happy to see him. However, I remember hear...

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... , but i can feel how happy it is when we pull it out of the corner. It does not need to demand my attention, i give it because i want to. I cannot remember exactly where i met them. Maybe it was in Bible school or on Romper Room, an old television show for kids, but i reckon ... figured if i could read it, it was good enough. I set about trying to find a way to get those pictures into words. Written words. I lost the magic of drawing words when i learned how to write so i had to find a new way to bring the words to life. Then i discovered adjectives. They were sparkling fairies in my he...

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... ones my father had suggested: " Bring towels. Oh yeah, and why don't you bring some chocolate syrup?" "Be careful Lauren. Remember how you felt last year!" I shrugged his words off, and ran to the car. My adrenaline was sky high. I felt like I"d drank five Mountain Dews. I couldn't believe the day had finally ... on news crews started showing up across the street from the school. Walking through the halls, all I heard was about the past Sunday morning. I remember my mom coming home from work and saying, " Lauren, this is not good." I froze and my face turned beet red as she told me ......

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... When he had a job interview and came back without a job, Mama would always say " oh dear, here we go again, that man needs to calm his senses down." Daddy would always drive in, in our "2 cent car" hop out, walk up the stairs, through the door and slide into his "thinking chair." Me and Tom would have ... to run up stairs so Mama could "talk to him." Later I would sneak down and sit at the top of the stairs and listen to what Mama and Daddy were talkin about. Daddy ... of a house and said "that's our house kids, we"re gunna buy that house" and Tom got real excited. A couple weeks later...

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... dark blue with the northern lights scourging the sky with bright mystical colors. My eyes are wide open as I am pulled into this great wonder. Waves form as I walk. Each step I take, a dozen more emerge. They extend outward, touching everything in sight. I look around me and not a single soul is present. I ... plains. I am alone. Unwillingly, I found myself drowning in a room full of tears, my tears. The feeling of loneliness runs down my face and drips to the floor, already occupied by the tears of lost and regrets, my regrets that are burning through my soul. If only If I did "this" o...

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E.E. Cummings and His Works Two women walk past him, conversing with their noses pointed to the sky, in glistening attire, with fur scarves slung around their necks and ornate designs engraved into their dresses. His eyes shift from the gossiping women to a cluster of businessmen laughing while they smoked cigars inside a restaurant. The men dressed in black, colorless business suites, with fashionable ties, fashionable ... in life, and bloom into a person free of ignorance, and thruster into a pathway of open-mindedness. Last, Cummings implies the driving force to this route to enlightenment...

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... three hours the previous day working on the yard. Pointing at the grass he said, "Man I hate cutting this shit every weekend!" "At least you have grass to cut, I have to look at rocks when I"m in my backyard." I said in a humorous tone. Frank sat back down and said, "I guess I do take things for granted ... a little bit. It could be worse. Remember back in Korea when they"d lift up the sidewalks and the sewage drains were right there?" "How could I forget the smell?" ... wasn't the cutest thing I"d ever laid my eyes on. Once we passed our "guard dog", we would continue on with our half-...

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... lived in Sothern California for generations, not Mexico. She's never had problems here with people about her race, and I've only had one. I can still remember it like it was yesterday, even though it's been over ten years. What went on that day in eighth grade has stuck with me, and changed the ... the outside monitor, broke us up. After a grand 'fuck you' to Josh and Ryan, I made the long walk home. I could still hear them yelling things at me, and every step for those first two blocks were hard to take, because I wanted so much to turn around and just kill them both. It wasn't until I ...

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FEAR My eyes slowly open, once again the date 5th May had come back to haunt me once more, bringing fearful memories in my mind. I remember the incident clearly the memory howls in my brain, making it feel as it just happened ... yesterday. I could sense burning tears furious yet heartbreaking tears slipping down my cheek. I clamber from my colossal bed and gaze at the digital clock beaming 3.15am. How can I forget the incident? It played such a tremendously depressing turning point of my life. I walk at a snail's pace to ... in misery watching the candle and once again I see a vision. If on...

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... has paid off. I have an associate's degree in Fire Science Technology and my dream of becoming a fire inspector will finally come true. Before I begin to practice my dream career I am going on a vacation. I will use the next three weeks for mental relaxation. The first week will be spent skiing ... of the loud noises that I hear is the pilot screaming. The last thing I can remember is looking out the window and seeing trees so close that I could almost touch them. The plane crashes. I regain consciousness only to find that the plane has nearly been destroyed. Quickly realizing that this ...

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... stride brings him closer. His deep blue eyes which, have remained unchanged and unchangeable, but for the laughter lines surrounding them, are still windows to his strong but gentle soul. His features still portray the strength I had so admired in him, the strength that had made him my rock ... for an escape. My heart is pounding and I am awash in a sea of memories. I remember how much he believed in me; how he always told me with such faith that I could do anything I set my hand to. And I find myself, once again, staring blankly at my still unanswered question; "How would ... became. I ...

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... parents got a divorce and after a long and expensive court battle, my father was awarded custody of me. Although I do not know why he made such an effort to get me, as he always pawned me off and had little interest in my life while I was growing up. Shortly after my parents divorced my father remarried a woman ... out snorting cocaine with his buddies. On many occasions he would come home all coked-up and beat up on me and throw me around. To be honest I got quite used to the abuse. I remember the time I brought home a puppy that I had found and my father was so pissed he slammed the pup...

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... ancient notion that all black cats were witches in disguise. Of course, she never seriously believed this, and I mention it only because I just now happened to remember it. Pluto - that was the cat's name - was my favourite pet and playmate. I alone fed him, and he followed my wherever I went in the ... its love for me seemed to increase. It followed me around with a determination that is difficult for the reader to understand. Wherever I sat, it would crouch beneath my chair or spring upon my knees. If a rose to walk, it would get between my legs, and nearly trip me, or try to climb up...

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