Soup Kitchen Creative Writing

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I stood in front of the detox centre. I asked Mac the place Jack went before I left the soup kitchen. However when I actually arrived, it was altogether mixed emotions within myself, exciting, hesitating and overcautious. I still didn’t know whether it was a good decision for me, or whether my visiting would disturb Jack’s life.
That reminded me the weird feeling I had when I came back to the civics class with my 40 hours done. I had a presentation in front of class about my overall feeling of volunteering in soup kitchen. After that, Mrs. Watkins praised me as the “hardest worker” in the class and asked everyone to clap for the things I contributed to the soup kitchen and to the community. The weird thing was that as I received so many admired

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