Personal Narrative Essay About The Greasers

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I, Cherry Valance and my friends are leaving our boyfriends for the night. We are going to have a girls night. “Let’s go get our hair done!” exclaimed Marcia. The girls and I go to the hair salon and passing the hair salon we saw Ponyboy and Johnny and some other Greasers. We got to talking and we decided to skip the hair salon and get to know each other and talk. “You’re different than I thought.” said Marcia. I agreed with Marcia and explained to Ponyboy that at school, she's a soc but when she's not around her boyfriend and the other socs, she can express how she truly feels about the Greasers.

In my school life, I’m a Soc , along with all of my other friends. I live in a nice, big, white house with black shutters. I have nice clothes

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