Personal Narrative: My Identity

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Essay Prompt: Some students have a background, identity, interest or talent that is meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
This is the story of my rough childhood and trying to overcome what I thought was impossible. I achieved people and myself thought I couldn't do. "Do you want a chicken patty or a cheeseburger?", said the lunch lady. "Just give her both", said one of my classmates while others laughing. After that happened I went to the office to call my mom is pick me up. It was only a couple weeks into the year of 6th grade. Days, weeks, months and years of name calling and making fun of and it was hell. I thought school was supposed to be a safe place.
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I was that quiet and shy little girl. I was probably around 15-20 pounds overweight but I have always been a pretty big girl. I didn’t really have friends until 7th grade I met my best friend, Diana. Before I would call to leave early and sometimes not even go to school. But, let me go back to 4th grade. The summer of '06 was one of the worse and traumatic summers of my life. I rarely knew anything about or seen my uncle. ever since that day, I don't think of him as family. I lost all my respect for him. Depression hit me but it went and came back a little harder. The same routine of missing and leaving school kept going. Until my sophomore year, I couldn't take it anymore and I ended up going to this special hospital for a couple

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