... , if the days and nights were reversed? Impossible! youll say. Yes. Thats true for most people, but not for me. Im a passive day dreamer and active night walker. Unfortunately, people only see me during the day time, and they severely criticize me for my innocent biological time cycle. For example, when class goes on, I busily travel to my dream land; when people ... computer programmer in the cyber space of the dark evenings. But they feel too sleepy to see me then! This is me, a person who lives in a world where days and nights are revised. If you want to know more, welcome! But first ...

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... what happened to me as a child, I knew that's why I was full of rage. As time went by the staff tried to help me realize that the nights I spent being beaten till I was blue, and the nights I went without food, or water wasn't my fault. Looking back at those times all I felt then was I wanted to die, so I wouldn't have to live those ... 't be as successful as I am today if the staff at Maryhurst gave up on me. They taught me how to go after my dreams and that it was okay to dream big. Many times when I would let myself down. They were there to help me get back on track. Just like they ar...

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... what happened to me as a child, I knew that's why I was full of rage. As time went by the staff tried to help me realize that the nights I spent being beaten till I was blue, and the nights I went without food, or water wasn't my fault. Looking back at those times all I felt then was I wanted to die, so I wouldn't have to live those ... 't be as successful as I am today if the staff at Maryhurst gave up on me. They taught me how to go after my dreams and that it was okay to dream big. Many times when I would let myself down. They were there to help me get back on track. Just like they ar...

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... . Now that she is gone I have to take that place. Now that I am the only lady in the house, I have to be the mother. No more going out on Friday nights with my friends, no more doing whatever I want. Every Friday, my friends would go out to the movies, and have fun without me. I had to stay home and make sure ... eight year old boy call you mom and you are as young as me, it's the scariest feeling you can have. The warm salty tears run down my cheek as I dream of the life of a teenager I have never experienced. I long for the loud noise of people yelling and cheering, "Go team go," and a...

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... . Now that she is gone I have to take that place. Now that I am the only lady in the house, I have to be the mother. No more going out on Friday nights with my friends, no more doing whatever I want. Every Friday, my friends would go out to the movies, and have fun without me. I had to stay home and make sure ... eight year old boy call you mom and you are as young as me, it's the scariest feeling you can have. The warm salty tears run down my cheek as I dream of the life of a teenager I have never experienced. I long for the loud noise of people yelling and cheering, "Go team go," and a...

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... life, a whole bunch of " if only's ". If only I had never met the guy's who I call my friends, I might be in a descent, honourable job. Instead of sitting on a street corner seven nights a week getting high off so many drugs I can't even remember what half of them are called. Although at least one good thing has come out of my time wasting . Emily ... , or in ten seconds I"m still going to have a few more bruises and scars to add to the collection . But it's good to dream sometimes. It's a different kind of feeling to the other so-called pleasures in life. In a dream I can be anything, o...

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... this and knew she wanted to head in some type of direction her mom was trying to do. When Mariah was growing into her teenage years it was still a big dream for her to become a singer. By the time she was seventeen she had graduated high school and now was ready to move out on her own and make it happen ... had no interest at this time to date anyone. She was too focus on trying to get a record deal and making an album. She didn't want anything to distract her dream. For about a year Mariah would go to studios and would go as far to the receptionist desk handing them a demo tape. But sh...

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... allowed to study because her society was against and her parents were too, and she ended up being nothing just a housewife .. Whenever , she used to tell me these stories my nights were always depressing and I used to always ask myself; do I gonna end up like my mom. As it was our last year of school, I participated in many activities and my ... usual I got more than my brother but this was my last result; my family don't want me to study any more as studying fashion studies was the one and only dream I thought to become but you know societal expectation can ruin lives of many people li...

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... it, you see it as he wanted to be bad and he does what bad people do to look it. In a way he refers to it as an allusion or a dream he wanted to be but really knowing he wasn't there. After some of his actions he has second thoughts, like going to jail, or even actually hurting someone. Then he ... fight without identity mistake. If he could just turn back the hands of time I'm sure he would no longer be a bad kid, he would most likely be playing chess three nights after school was out. But we all know that you can't turn back the hands of time and what's happened have already been burn...

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... through Cody's windshield and hit the left side of his head. I found out the night after it had happened and I could hardly believe that it was real but after a few nights of felling like I was in a very dramatic movie it begin to sink in. It hurt me to believe that God could let something so bad happen to such a great and ... waiting room. The only moment I started to actually believe that he was gone was ay his funeral. At first I still couldn't believe it I felt like it was a very avery bad dream, but when I looked at my Grandmother, who is very old and fragile, I knew it was true. H...

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... up. I never thought my own brother would ever get a deadly disease. It shocked me so bad, because it happened to my brother. Times started getting rough because of the many nights at the hospital. It was hard for me to go to school because I wanted to be at the hospital with him. I had to stay with my aunts and attend school ... gone. People say it gets easier as time goes by but it doesn't. I thought I was dreaming and when I woke up he would be right there beside me. But it wasn't a dream, it really happened. I thought nothing that bad could ever happen to me, but it did. I asked myse...

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... family, Michele wouldn't back down on her opinions, she stuck to them. Thus, a lot of their little arguments ended up in the police showing up at our door and countless nights in hotel rooms. I clearly remember huddling in a corner, watching my dad and sister fight with each other, knowing that she would take off running as soon as he raised his ... with a doctrine, people expect me to explain why. I think it's quite simple, the poor decisions she has made have left such an indelible image in my mind that I would never dream of making the same decisions, I have experienced the negative ...

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