8th Grade Turning Point

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8th Grade: Turning Point To Tomboy!
I have always been different, but my 8th grade year has been by far the most lit year of my entire life! First off we have my best friend Diamond Garcia. She has stood by me through everything I have gone through, made me try new things, and encouraged me to be myself, we’re like sisters, almost. Then we have wrestling, which made this year amazeballs, even though people think I can't wrestle because I'm a girl, but not only does wrestling make me feel better about myself, it makes me a better person. That is also the year I went from a girly girl to a tomboy, completely! I went from high heels to high tops, skirts to skinny jeans and sometimes jeans that sag a little, but I wear makeup, which most people say makes me a girly girl but it really doesn’t. My best friend Diamond Garcia saved my life. I ran into Diamond 1st quarter of my 8th grade year sauntering home from school with who I believed was my friend April Gonzalez, but she’s a
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I stopped wearing high heels most of the time and started wearing high tops more because this year is the year I stopped trying to please everyone else and started being myself. I was always a girl who didn't really fit with the girls but since I'm a girl I didn't fit with the boys either. I stopped wearing skirts except for every now and then and started wearing skinny jeans more often. I wear boy shorts every now and then to wrestling and rarely do I wear leggings to school. The only thing is I wear makeup a lot so people usually say that makes me a girly girl. I really only wear makeup because I like to, but I know lots of tomboys who wear makeup too so I don't see why that makes me a girly girl. I still don't really fit with the girls but I'm starting to fit with the boys more which is a good thing because sometimes boys are nicer than girls. I’m much more at home playing football with the guys than gossiping with the

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