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I particularly admire May because of how humble she is towards everyone and also the animal life as well as insects. Even though she sometimes has breakdowns she always is helping others. She has lost a lot with her twin sister's death and Zach going to jail. She is similar to me because we both have been through things that have put us into a depressed state of mind and are also sensitive to what others say to us. To help cope better with our feelings we have done many things to try and help, May built a wall to put her feelings on a note and puts it onto the wall which she calls it her wailing wall, I have done stuff similar like writing my feelings into a book that is hidden under my bed. She sings herself a song when she is upset, as for …show more content…
May then was so tired of holding onto her feelings and wanted to be with her twin sister, she gave in and committed suicide in the river by drowning herself with a rock. As for me, I been put into many mental facilities because of attempts of suicide. One facilities I spent a week and three days in a inpatient facilities away from my family all the way at Phoenix when I was only 13 years old, I was the youngest one there. The second facility I was there for 2 weeks in San Diego, but was lucky enough that on the weekends I could go home and see my family. As for animal life we both care a lot about them and don’t want any harm to be done to them. May creates a way out of the house with marshmallows and graham crackers, and when witnesses animals and/or insects being killed in front of her she cries. I hate when people kill poor animals for no reason as well as insects, when I see insects I normally grab a plastic container and a paper to take them outside. I have a big heart to animals because they don’t have a voice in this world so humans take advantage of that. May and I are very observant to the things going around us. May writes notes of all the destruction going on in the world at the time as for me I observe how others are being treated by people in the

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