20 Personal Artifacts

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20 is a freshman at Western Albemarle High School in Crozet, VA. 20 is very artistic and loves to express herself. In fact, every day she expresses her love for traveling by wearing an anchor bracelet and a bracelet from Belize. Many girls wear jewelry, some fancy, some not, but I feel a girl that expresses her loves through something so small but meaningful is a very thoughtful person. She also expresses herself by sharing her life with her friends on her phone. When you’re traveling and sharing your life with the world on your phone, you have to make sure it’s protected and practically lifeproof. That it is; 20’s phone is protected with a Lifeproof case and when she traveled to Belize this summer she brought it along. When 20 was in Belize she took many artistic, thoughtful pictures and intelligently saved all of them to share with her …show more content…
She also shares her intelligence in her favorite subject, English. Sharing and discussing her thoughts through different mediums of expression is one of her favorite part of English. Knowing that the phone case is an obviously very personal artifact that holds many people's deepest, darkest secrets and also is the key to their schedule, truly shows who they are. Any one person who holds a phone case as an artifact is a person with a very active social life that without a phone cannot be managed. Between making memories, taking selfies and dancing to the music stored inside, 20 certainly is a friendly spirit. The case itself shows dependability and a steadiness many look for in a friend. 20 is a girl with many great characteristics and artifacts and as life continues, the greater they will appear and the more she

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