Personal Narrative: Being An Ambitious Black Woman

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What makes Monica a wonderful person was a tricky question to ask myself. Only because most of the time I suck if you fall in front of me nine times out of ten I'm going to laugh. If I see you walking in the pouring rain I will drive by. Many people would consider that a mean or heartless, nothing wonderful at all. I beg to differ I'm simply amazing, not much of a social or friendly person but, I'm pretty wonderful, although I suck at times. Being an ambitious beautiful black woman makes up the amazingly made me. I can pick from the many aspects of myself that make me better than wonderful, conceited being one as you can see. I googled the definition of wonderful just to gain a better understanding of what it is I was going to write. Basically

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