Clara In The Nutcracker: A Personal Analysis

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I hated science when I was younger. It was something that I wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. My dream was to be a ballerina, more specifically I wanted to be Clara in The Nutcracker. I spent a lot of my childhood in hospitals. Sometimes I can still feel the harsh lights beating down on me and smell the Lysol. My father has been sick for most of my life and in a way, I resented him. I resented the illness that made him sick and unable to be like all my friends' fathers and I resented the hospitals that could not cure him.
I was only eleven when my dad was officially diagnosed with something called Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP). It is a rare illness that really no one knows how to treat. When I was younger

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