Personal Narrative: Not So Simple Same Sex

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As a young male, struggling through the social circle that is middle school, there was a phrase that sometimes was just a little too hard to mutter out. I struggled with it, my roommate claimed to have struggled with it, and so did many of my other friends trying to figuring out how to talk to the opposite sex. Picture this, a boy trembling at the sight of a girl, trying to muster up the courage to ask her a simple question: “will you go out with me?” That phrase, so simple, yet entirely complex for the mind of a fourteen year old. Now, the purpose of the paper will be to break down that “not so simple” phrase, and reword it into one hundred different ways to ask someone out. This phrase in particular is unique in the fact it can be said

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