Jeanette Walls Research Paper

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With the question “is Jeanette walls a credible author?”, many opinions came to mind. As a child, it is hard to remember certain things that occurred in your life. But then again, you remember the things that had the most impact on you. As a child Jeanette was burned severely trying to cook hot dogs at only the age of three. In various interviews, many brought up the question “how do we know this is credible?” I think that this event was true since there's feelings that someone just can't make up. Being burned as bad as she claims is an emotion that can't be explained without actually being somewhat true. For jenette to be accused of lying about something like being severely burned is kinda an insult in my eyes. She’s being denied

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