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Some obstacles that I have had to overcome over my life is my 2 black dogs died, during 6th grand, and I was really sad. They both died on a wednesday. One of them had to be put down, and the other one of trying to escape for her cage outside, and choked herself to death. It was pretty traject, now we have a different dog, so things have kind of gotten better. I also got to pick the dog, so it was pretty awesome. One of the only reasons we got a dog is because my dad let my mom pick his name. My mom named him Witten after a guy that she liked from the Cowboys. What happened to my dog affect me really bad, because when I found out, I was getting ready to walk out the door to go to the bus stop. Another thing that made it worse was

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