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Personal Narrative: I M Screwed Up
I’m Screwed Up Close your eyes and imagine all the good parts of your life in one place and then just flip it upside down. That is what happened to me my whole life and now I ain’t normal, I am screwed up. The difference between screwed up people and normal people is that we had a screwed up young life so nothing phases us in the long run. There were three events in my life, which were caused by the people closest to me, that screwed me up. Whenever school got tough for me, my parents were always positive…that I would never amount to anything. After the sixth grade my parents wouldn’t help me with my homework and this made me believe that if you needed help you were weak. They were never that way to my little brother. He never had his confidence
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