Allan Frederick Research Paper

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Much like everything else, relationships evolve; Allan Frederick and mine is no exceptions. Even though I would consider Allan one of my best friends, it is not too hard to remember a time where we weren 't that close. Through painstaking arguments and joyous times, our relationship has matured from mere acquaintances to good friends in four-ish years.
If I am going to get into the nitty gritty of our friendship we have to go to the very beginning. At first, Allan was only a friend of a friend; Abey was our mutual friend. At this time Allan was rocking a short haircut which would occasionally be slicked back. Luckily, his hair also evolved into something more tolerable later in our friendship. Abey and I planned to hang out one day so I
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We got into a heated debate over something minor, such as the formatting of a presentation we were going to give. I wanted the background to be a dark color and the text to be a light color. Allan preferred having a light background with a dark font. Soon after we started our little squabble, I learned it was impossible to argue with Allan. This man is a brick wall. Once he has something in his mind he won 't let go of it. One thing led to another and it was all out war. Allan used the tactic of talking while I was speaking, rendering my points void because he wasn 't even listening. Clearly, I am in the right in this scenario because who wants to have the plain old presentation as everyone else, but that is beside the point. Though this brick wall strategy is very childish, it is very effective; we ended up going with what Allan wanted. I think he knows this method of arguing is effective too because he still uses it to this …show more content…
Nowadays, we hang out all the time; in school, out of school, anywhere. Though we still get in arguments and he uses his very annoying tactic, our relationship stays strong. We just went to our very first party together this last weekend. This was an amazing bonding experience because we have never done anything like that before and it was amazing to be there with a very close friend. Even though we didn 't do anything illegal, we had an amazing time and our friendship grew even stronger. Also, since I mentioned his hair evolving, if you take one look at Allan you will realize that he has frosted tips with a little bit of a hair flip, an interesting choice but a vast improvement from before. My friendship with Allan has evolved into one of the strongest friendships I have ever had. Even if Allan is stone walling me during an argument, I know that we are still good friends and that we can play a game of FIFA to get over it. It’s weird to think about, but I love this little

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