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My Future As A Kid Essay

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When I looked into my future as a kid, I never saw it ending at age 16. When I was 6, I thought i would live in a castle and grow old with someone I loved. The next year, I was diagnosed with Leukemia. The next 11 years, I was in and out of the hospital getting treatment and most of the time staying home because I was so weak. On the days I did go to school, I didn 't talk to anyone and I just walked around listening to everyone talking about me. To them, I was just “cancer girl,” but one day, I met someone different, someone who saw me as a human trying to make it in this world. His name is Matt. The way we met was crazy, I had been walking in the hallway and I clumsily tripped over, as cheesy as it sounds, he came and helped me pick up my books. We never exchanged a word, we just looked into eachothers eyes, almost as if we were communicating through the soul. Days went by before I ever saw Matt again, and one day in the hallway he walked past me, turned around and dropped all his papers in his cluttered backpack. I laughed at his attempt to get my attention, and helped him pick up his stuff. “You are so unorganized.” I tell him picking up his stacks and stacks of papers. “Clean this junk up.” “What are you talking about? I just organized my backpack out in the 8th grade!” I roll my eyes at him and tell him I will be late to my bus if I don 't leave soon. “Why don 't I just come over? You can help me organize all my junk.” I shrug my shoulders and tell him it 's fine

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