Story Summary: Ivory Christian

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Ivory Christian

By. Cito Pantoja

Ivory Christian is a boy who has a love and hate relationship with the game of football. He loves playing and the aggressiveness it brings also the adrenaline and yet he is very shy.
Ivory gets his aggressiveness from being big built and having the strength of being able to bench press 275 pounds and being able to run a 4.7 40 yard dash at the age of sixteen years old, but isn’t too sure about colleges. Didn’t even bother taking SAT or ACT after receiving offers from top schools in the nation.

He thought about his-self and what his actions, or what was about to happen. Ivory had low self-esteem didn’t really care about what he could do with his talents. In the story it says Ivory is a “Influentiual kid

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