College Admissions Essay: The Dream Life

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The Dream Life On May, 20th 2018, it was finally graduation. My friends, boyfriend, and I were all together for lunch and getting ready. “Stevie! Where is the punch?” said Russ, my boyfriend. He was rummaging through my refrigerator looking for his whole gallon of punch to take to our graduation ceremony, for himself! My house was full of all the people that mean the most to me, my boyfriend, my best friends, Gabi, Cecilia, Makayla, Brady, Gabe. W, Gabe. G Michael, Miguel, and Robert, I guess you can include their boyfriends and their girlfriends. My friends are my world and nothing is going to split us apart. We have many plans and dreams after high school with ur last summer left before reality kicks in. We are all planning on going to college somewhere, just not together, sadly. We all have our dreams and goals, but there is one in particular. My dream is to travel the world someday, my first quest is to travel the U.S in a school bus that I have been saving up to buy. After high school and college that is my plan. My friends have also been saving up with me to remodel the inside and make it a home.
My mom owns a salon, and she let us use her place for all of us girls to get ready. She curled our hair, and helped us pick out cute summer dresses to wear for the ceremony. My dress was simple,
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Walking up to the school, Russ grabbed my hand and whispered in my ear, making it clear I was the only one that will hear him. “You look beautiful today, I just wanted to let you know that. I also wanted to tell you that I love you and I can't wait for the more adventures were about to take and all the memories. I can't tell you how much you mean to me and much I admire you, Stevie.” As he was telling me all this, he would squeeze my hand. Russ makes sure that I know that he cares and I will never forget it

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