In this story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" a girl name Connie she was always so in love with how she looked that her mother didn't like that at all because that was all she cared about was her looks. Her mother would always talk good of her sister June because she didn't really care about her appearance like her sister. ... The boy just was smiling and just started talking to her like he knew Connie. ... " He told her "I want you, that after seeing you that night, he knew she was the one for him.... But if you read the story you would've saw how...

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Her dad was a cold hearted guy, he said "your mom is right you need to learn how to cook and clean". ... When the wedding came they still would not let her go to the game, until half way through when her dad said "in that is the only thing that is going to make you happy on your sisters wedding day then go play. ... He didn't want her to have regrets of quitting like he did and didn't want her to miss her opportunity. ...

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Immature, you can call it. ... My father honked his car like the world was belong to him. ... It looked like she had some feelings of unsatisfaction in her heart and wanted me in the pain as a punishment. ... They had pour me with a lot of loves and it made me felt like I betrayed them as the secret still with me. ...

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It always seemed that every girl I truly liked would never like me back, and all the girls that did like me were, well you know, ugly. ... How many times you ask? ... Not one girl has ever liked me for the way I am. ... There's always those quiet people that actually still like you for the way you are even if you"re absurd like me, but you are never able to consider how beautiful of a person they really are. ... I have found through experiments that it is only your true friends that like you for who you are. ...

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I would see this as a way to discourage their kids from growing and becoming like them. ... I feel that the matrilineal family is very much like a gang. ... Whether you are the dad, or the son, the wife or the daughter, you don't really seem to have much say, the family that you come into gives you that "identity". ... It's interesting how the one that takes on the male role tends very much to act like a male in the real world. Grabbing the crotch, the things they wear, down to the underwear, everything is male like if that's who you choose to be. ...

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However these teenagers do not realize that you are what your parents are, they raised you, cared for you, and taught you the fundamentals of life. Eventually you will become who they are without even realizing it. ... For instance my father whose mouth is like a motor that doesn't need gas, it will never stop running, and it gets pretty annoying. ... I would have to say that I am not really like my parents at all, but I know that in the future I will be somewhat like them and I fear that. ... I stated the same thing about my future son; my dad looked at me and said, "If you love him you ...

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Go to hell you idiot, you screwed up again! ... He looked at me with his dead eye sand asked me with a very narrow damp and weak hissing voice and demanded give me some change you don't know what its like over here I cant spare you some change he looked at me with disappointment in his eyes You dont know what it is like living a life like this I ignored his comment and continued my way to my grandpas house a retirement home at downtown which looked like an abandoned house with its overgrown grass and scratched paint job which looked like it had survived the Second World War. ... What ha...

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"How can a guy grow up in a circus like that?" ... "You"re tearing me apart." ... Then you will be a good American, and America salutes you. ... "Don't I buy you everything you want?" ... What kind of music is this, parents wanted to know, you just don't get it do you, you just don't understand, said the kids. ...

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The relationship between the son and his dad is not that good and it is not like a normal father and son relationship. ... If you do not have a father to raise you and be there for you for three years, it will be obvious you are looking forward to see him again. You are so excited and then you see him you feel like seeing yourself just older and bigger, you get happy. ... He uses different languages, so he feels like a man who got more power than the others. ... His father treats him as if he is a stranger; like they'd never met before....

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If, on your first day, you look "cool" and people see you as cool, then you"ll be popular, but if you start off your day by crying and vomiting, then people will avoid you no matter how nice or generous you are to them. Why crying you ask? ... Now, standing with my mother just like the rest of the kids, I saw some parents leave. ... I will be back before you have to leave. ... They usually do and tell me: "You"re the guy that liked to draw." ...

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John read on "This invitation has been sent to you due to Nicole's interest in you, and would like your company." ... "Is there anywhere in particular you would like to sit, Mr. ... "I would like to introduce my husband, Neil. ... "John, I would like you to meet my daughter, Aria. ... Aria, I would like you to go back to your play room. ...

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But not every family is like that. ... I think in families like that, the pressure to be perfect is definitely on. ... Aren't you the least bit curious to know that if you were in another family would your life be like this? ... "It was just like I had two moms, I didn't think anything of it". ... My parents didn't raise me to think that I had to be like them because that's not something you can just say you are. ...

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"He used to walk home after a day like that, and Samira would be there. ... As you begin to look at the two stories you can tell how Dee and Jimmy are alike in a lot of ways. ... Just like monkey see monkey do. ... Just like her mom had done. ... Just like in Everyday Use when Maggie used that butter churn every day; is just like monkey see monkey do (Monkey Business) the way the man in the meat shop was trying to get Zizi to cut meat like him....

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When he first started crawling it was more like scooting on his belly. ... He walks just like his father, which everyone loves. Imagine seeing a toddler walk like a grown man. ... Having a child is like nothing else. ... I know now what my mom meant when she said, "You will know how much I love you when you are a mother." ...

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RESPOPNSE The main characters in Paul Zindel's The Pigman, two high school Students named John and Lorraine, find out what this is like. ... You can find out the interesting reason why by reading this fun and suspense filled book. ... John and Lorraine's relationship with their newfound friend and their shared desire for love from an adult will make you laugh, cry, and wish that you could be there to share these experiences with them. ... Like when Lorraine sacrifices lying to her mom with the chance of getting caught to go visit the Pigman when John wants to. ... When you co...

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He laughed "Oh, so you think you can follow your dream to be a nurse easier? You are wrong my daughter." ... They are dead to you. ... When I listened to what he said, I cried like a baby. ... Like Senna with her grandmother, she said:" I longed to know her- to love her...

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A single mother said, "Sometimes you don't feel like a real person, you don't feel like you're doing your job as a parent no matter how much you love them, because of money. You don't have any time with them because you're working all the time. ... But then there's the child-care bill, and you have to put it off with excuses, and your child runs a fever for three days and you haven't the money to pay for a doctor's visit. When they get sick, you stay home with them, and you miss work, which means you don't get paid and aaaahhhhhh . . . it's...

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"Untitled" When you"re a kid you think life was made to have fun and be happy. ... My dad; a very fine and gentle like man, seemed to be loved by everyone. ... People would use to say to my mom "You are a very lucky woman, who wouldn't want a husband like yours". ... Many years had passed and living like this was starting to be a routine. ... I now understand that even people who you think love you, can still harm you in some ways you would never imagine. ...

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Everyone should be themselves because you can only succeed in live if you know who you really are. ... I am also like my mom because I like to cook, clean and do sports. I like some of the sports my mom does like Volleyball, Tennis and Swimming. I am also different to my parents because I like different clothing style as my parents and although they like sports I play way more sports than them and I like sports more that they do. ... I also want to be like parents because I like their style of a living and I also really like their personality. ...

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You often tell me you want to be a scientist, and that's awesome! ... I want, through this letter, to offer you a kind of guideline I would like you to follow for when you become a parent. Or even use as a reference when you feel like you don't understand the reasons why you act or feel a certain way. ... I have to admit my temper got worse the first few months of pregnancy; I felt like I hated your father, everything seemed to irritate me. ... Get you to like it, because it's healthy for you and it will keep you busy, away from the streets and from playing video games in for l...

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"What tha hell happened to you?... I know what you're thinking, if you are spoiled then why are you getting hit? ... You been looking like you lost yo puppy all day today."" ... That day was like a blur to me except for the conversation that Erika and I had. ... It was like a big weight came off my shoulder. ...

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Communication is important from when you're small till you grow up and begin thinking for yourself. ... Like for instance the way he would get mad at the smallest things that I did and start yelling at me like crazy got me scared. ... In the book (pg.73) it talks about how appraisals could be very different based on the person that gives you that appraisal like it has to be someone close to you someone that you have trusted for a long time, for example parents because they have been around us for a long time they raised us and you've put in your head that your parents know it all abo...

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"I mean they"re all right if they go around saving innocent guys" lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you"re a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hotshot. How would you know you weren't being a phony? ... "I like Allie," I said. "And I like doing what I"m doing right now. ...

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Going to the post office is not just a simple errand; it is more like an all day activity. ... After all if it weren't for these families little towns like this would still be just a dot on a map. ... The days are getting closer, you just want to sit and watch the clock, but you know that you cant. ... Just like the man, far away from home. ... Times like these are few and far between, because it will soon be back to 0700, drill, pt, and new orders. ...

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Going to the post office is not just a simple errand; it is more like an all day activity. ... After all if it weren't for these families little towns like this would still be just a dot on a map. ... The days are getting closer, you just want to sit and watch the clock, but you know that you cant. ... Just like the man, far away from home. ... Times like these are few and far between, because it will soon be back to 0700, drill, pt, and new orders. ...

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