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Nick Carroway: My Personal Moral Dilemmas
So many people I know lack ambition, wisdom, and the strong desire to overcome the adversities they face and solemnly share with me and the public. I encounter and am told these personal moral dilemmas so much so that it feels as if I have been given a gift, that is of course that I am the one told, however, I feel cursed by my own disparities and troublesome childhood I was dealt, my empathy because of this is boundless, making myself one to listen and guide, I always guide.I want to judge and criticize, mock, and hate but i think of the old money way and Nick Carroway begins to muse me “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve

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