Personal Narrative: Cancerette

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Cancerette

At night, dogs move around the streets with their huge paws hitting the pavement as they wander around jerking at their pollution stained chains. Their masters walk next to them holding their thick ringed chains. These people were called the guards. The city was dark and distroyed as any other place would be at this time. Its filled with old-fashion glass and steal shaped by decades of destruction and chaos. The government fears us(s). United, the people of the city were powerful, yet scattered, divided and leaderless, we are incapable of revolt. How they created such a sense of anarchy yet controlled themselves was unbelievable and plausible at the same time(cd). The first trace of rebellion sparked panic within the government
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The effects got worse and the average life span dropped by forty years. What the government called a cure, the citizens called "Cancerette" There was no escape and no way to stop this harm. Though their bodies to fight it, their subconscious didn’t allow such violation. Although many were able to stop such harm, there were some who couldn’t resist the feeling. I have resisted the feeling. Since the first time Cancerette first came into existence(cx), I have felt its presence around me.... But unlike the citizens around me, my subconscious is still clean. I knew my punishment for my crimes would be severe, but I continue to keep clean. At birth I was given number 3778, that would be carried with me for the rest of my life. This number would determine where I would go to school and what my profession I would be, among all the tasks I preform for the government throughout my life. The number brought me to my profession in chemistry. It was my job to prepare each batch of Canceretts,The drug that in return would give me freedom. As I make my own dosage, I have taken it upon myself to create a drug despite the smell and appearance is in fact not Canceretts.This mechanism has put a new task on my plate to create a cure

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