I ran my hand over the step and the touch was so soft that I went to the landing of the stairs and sat there. ... So I sat there, where I could hear my parents and brothers who were decorating the yard, and as I saw the painting imagining that I was in this peaceful place, I began to reflect on what had happened until I fell asleep. ... But now I live in a new country and I am sure that I will find my new favorite place....

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It seems as though the children of new are more angry, more agitated, and never seem to just smile at the simple things. ... My mom was home, my dad went to work and when it was dinnertime we all sat at the table and discussed how our days went. ... We sat down with our marbles for hours and tried to knock our opponent's marbles out of the circle to win theirs. ...

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This occurrence came to pass when I was young and living in New York. ... The night of the incident, I sat deeply wounded because I was not accepted in my much-loved hometown. ... I must put behind all judgments, and suspicions along with my trepidation about people and things that are different, new and strange, of which I do not yet understand. ...

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In the end of summer 1992, I got into the small enclosed room of a new and unknown world that my mother called school. ... When other kids saw me already hard at work with my drawing that appeared to look like a vortex, they came and sat down with me. ...

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When I sat in my father's blue 2003 Ford Taurus at the age of fifteen, little did I know my life was to change forever. "Alright children, your mom and I have to speak with you about something important," exclaimed my father. My elder sister and I knew what was going to come next. I whispered under...

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Courage is not those heroic acts we see watching superman nor is it those muscle bound men with super strength. But it is a combination of persistence, patience, determination, honesty, compassion, and love that makes true courage and strength an effective and influential but yet a fragile tool. ...

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In the new Millennium today, because the divorce rate is at it's peak, thousands of dollars are being funded for such things as child support, counseling, and many people emotionally unhappy, which is all too common. ... When dinner was finally ready, we all sat down as usual. ... We just sat there listening to Rick Dee's play the top 40 on the radio. ...

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I sat down next to the fire gazing into its endless orange glow, as I pondered why mother insisted on putting huge curlers in her hair even camping. ... Once I had let out enough line I set the rod in Dad's homemade holder, and I sat back to wait for an attack on the lure. ... As the tears rolled over her swollen cheeks, she told me heaven has a new angle, and he will be beside me always. ...

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So, as Sarty sat in front of the Justice's court, he was fully ready to defend his father. ... None of these wrong doings had fazed Sarty until he saw the house of their new landlord, Major de Spain. ... Sarty watched on as his father purposely stepped into a pile of horse droppings before leaving a stain on the rug that his new landlord had owned. ...

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I sat there in the midst of my father's shadow, I watched him as he spoke to an unknown man about the papers he held out. ... In fact, this wasn't just a divorce, a split up, a break up, or whatever you may call it, this was a way to our new lives. This was a new beginning for us, for me. ...

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Every year my family members usually come home together to have new year dinner. ... Normally, after my father's statement, everybody started eating, talking and giving to each other all the best wishes for new year. I sat at the corner of the table and looked at every single family face. ...

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The reason she did not remove them, however, was that it was one of the rare moments that my sisters and I did not fight but gathered together and sat around instead with smiles on our face. ... As time has passed by and circumstances have changed, my family members are spread all over the world now like the bottom part of a seashell: myself in New York, my older sister in Boston, my mom and younger sister in Seoul, South Korea, and my dad at Dadaepo. ...

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The reason she did not remove them, however, was that it was one of the rare moments that my sisters and I did not fight but gathered together and sat around instead with smiles on our face. ... As time has passed by and circumstances have changed, my family members are spread all over the world now like the bottom part of a seashell: myself in New York, my older sister in Boston, my mom and younger sister in Seoul, South Korea, and my dad at Dadaepo. ...

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The reason she did not remove them, however, was that it was one of the rare moments that my sisters and I did not fight but gathered together and sat around instead with smiles on our face. ... As time has passed by and circumstances have changed, my family members are spread all over the world now like the bottom part of a seashell: myself in New York, my older sister in Boston, my mom and younger sister in Seoul, South Korea, and my dad at Dadaepo. ...

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Human beings develop over the periods during their life. A momentous period in which a person has a huge turning-point change from a kid to an adult is called puberty. Many psychology researchers showed that puberty is one of the most important periods in human ages because the changes in this perio...

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I was one of those boys who were born with a golden spoon in his mouth. When I was 3 years old, my dad had cars he put on the road for public transportation, though he was riding a Vespa motorcycle. He eventually acquired a lot of cars which were at the disposal of my younger ones and me. We had our...

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No Man Is An Island "I don't want to see your ugly face around the campus until you bring 20 coconuts to me."" That's a phrase my dad heard and would never forget when he attended the Free Wesleyan Church Boys' School in Tonga. It was enough to make my dad transfer to another school even though his...

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