For instance, when you are late for appointment; you come up behind her and she is going the exact speed limit. ... As he is tailgating you, you speed up to like 80 miles per hour and he is still right behind you. ...

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While he speeds through the Baylor campus, I slouch in the passenger seat of my father's Crown Victoria, disregarding the posted twenty-five miles per hour speed limit seeming to use the speed bumps as launch ramps. ...

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I opened my eyes and darkness surrounded me. I couldn't remember where I was. Everything was silent. I could hear the rain falling like tiny bombs on our car and felt frigid cold air brushing my face. Something soft, like a pillow, was below my right ribs. Am I dying? Where am I? My head was filled ...

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My parents always used to tell me, "Life isn't always easy." Of course, being a teenager at the time, I would always know better than my parents and would never believe them when they told me that. So when I moved out of my parents home at the age of twenty-two, I wasn't prepared for what was abo...

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