Mean Girl Research Paper

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One of the biggest mistakes you can make? Letting a person, or anything really, have more control of you than you do yourself. And no, I'm not talking about a "Mean Girls" type of controlling. I'm talking about allowing a certain situation affect you, more than it needs to.

It was freshman year, I was young and, no doubt about it, dumb. I'm not gonna talk a lot about it but, it was a breakup; you seen one you seen them all. A breakup with someone I've heard rumors about but had the totally indiscriminate, average dumb teenager thought, "Hey! Maybe he'll be different for me." So, that went south, obviously. But, after the end, it wasn't over for me. I remember, for almost a year, I was hung up on hating this guy, but not. You know, the whole

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