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Lesbian Essay
The hardest barrier I have ever faced in my life was figuring out that I am a lesbian. Yeah, you heard right; I’m a lesbian. Not a very big surprise if you talk to the kids at my school. To them, It’s just another reason to pick on me. But I faced this mountainous barrier with integrity, justice, courage, and determination. This fact came with a ton of barriers packed within, as it in itself is not a barrier. The first of these barriers was the fact that telling my mother meant almost certain death, the constance of religion’s haunting impression of hate which still lingers over the modern civilization, and the fact that I am
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Lydia
I looked over at Lydia on the other bench, quietly reading her book. Of course she was. She was the perfect little girl. I smiled to myself, and turned back to looking out of the window, on which raindrops were streaming past diagonally. Under us, the train rattled a little. Blurred a little by the rain I watched the rolling hills and landscape pass, and let my mind wander.
A memory I hadn't thought about in a while came to me. I saw a sunny dirt lane in my minds eye, over the dull back-crop the carriage window presented me. Two children were crouching in the lane, looking at a worm beside a clump of grass on the sid
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I am five years old.
The boys in my class have just been teasing me about my last name. It is, unfortunately and a little ironically, Gaye. I'm at my desk crying while my first grade teacher talks to the boys in the hall. My best friend Garrett sits down next to me and tells me that I shouldn't cry because my name is spelled different than "the bad kind". I stop crying because I find that strangely comforting. But the heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach doesn't go away.
I am eight years old.
I'm reading a book from my favorite book series, the Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. The book series started out age appropriately enough
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Something I wrote in a car that may soon be mine.
Edited extremely to be in
's contest. Hurr.
It's supposed to be a letter.
Edited extremely to be in
's contest. Hurr.It's supposed to be a letter.
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this is incredible!
Now.. I'm wondering.. The main character.. Boy or girl?
Because I thought it was a girl.. And Kate was struggling because she didn't want to have these same sex feelings for her.
But is it a guy? And Kate wants to love him but can't because he's not a girl?
Haha either way, truly amazing story
Now.. I'm wondering.. The main character.. Boy or girl?
Because I thought it was a girl.. And Kate was struggling because she didn't want to have these same sex feelings for her.
But is it a guy? And Kate wants to love him but can't because he's not a girl?
Haha either way, truly amazing story