Personal Narrative: My Growth As A Woman

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As I entered a stage of puberty, I was a timid person. My experiences with my first blemish, my hips evolving, my first period and my first crush. A time of many firsts. This made me feel so afraid because it meant that I was growing into a woman. I found it scary because I wanted to to stay a child forever. As a child I was more of a tomboy. I would play every sport imaginable (baseball, tennis, soccer and basketball) and growing up into a “woman” would mean all the fun times would be taken away from me.

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