Personal Statement: Opportunity For Responsibility

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“Opportunity for Responsibility” Do you ever feel good about buying your own things with money you earn? I think it is important to earn your own money to buy what you want. Not only do you appreciate it, you take really good care of it. I started making my own money in the fifth grade. I was mowing the church yard to pay for everything I wanted to get for myself. What made me realize how nice it was, I sold a Polaris 250 trail four wheeler I got almost One thousand dollars out of it and I spent it on junk. After I grew up a little I realized I should have spent it wisely. After I started at the church I would go out with my papaw a lot and I would buy stuff all the time. I would spend it wisely like on stuff that wasn’t expensive and

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