Luisa Figueroa's I Am Not A Rabid Dog

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Certainly, Ana is a particular girl who is falling in love. One day she was playing to “here comes the deer” with her classmate at school. This is a game where everyone hold hands and go around in circles while only one person -the deer- try to penetrate and broke the strong circle. Anyway, they was playing when Luisa Figueroa, a rich girl, said to Ana “You are ugly”. Ana lost her temper and bit to Luisa so bad that even bleed. Of course, Ana ended punished in the classroom, writing five hundred of time “I am not a rabid dog”. She knows that she is not a rabid dog. And she knows too, that when someone tells her ugly she goes crazy. Maybe is because no one ever said that she is pretty. Well, no one except Eusebio. He is a poor boy, but that

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