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#2151voted by our readers
By Adam Dole BRONZE
Houston, Texas

Scrawny, average, and undisciplined, I was the underdog of the boys' basketball tryouts in seventh grade. Making the team was very important to me, but I had become accustomed to n...
Adam Dole BRONZE, Houston, Texas
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

#2152 Nonfiction
sweethearrrt GOLD, Portland, Oregon
10 articles 7 photos 43 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

#2154 Nonfiction
By Anonymous
#2155 Nonfiction
Jennifer Flaherty BRONZE, Franklin, Maryland
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#2156 Nonfiction
By ZanibZulfiqar PLATINUM
West Chester, Ohio
ZanibZulfiqar PLATINUM, West Chester, Ohio
20 articles 2 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2157 Nonfiction
#2158 Nonfiction
By Amrun BRONZE
Al Sa&#39adah, Other
Amrun BRONZE, Al Sa&#39adah, Other
4 articles 0 photos 5 comments
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#2160 Nonfiction
By henlady GOLD
Oakland, California
henlady GOLD, Oakland, California
13 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
The most wasted day of all is that on which you have not laughed.