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My Interview With Emily Johnson Essay

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My interview with Emily Johnson took place on November 9, 2016 in person at 8:36 pm. Emily is eighteen years old and grew up in Tampa, Florida. She attended a public high school and is currently a freshman at the University of Central Florida. While Emily attended the same high school with a lot of her acquaintances from middle school, she had to part ways with her closest friends. She recalled that not being able to have them with her during high school was hard, especially because that meant she had to make new ones. Emily joined her high school’s cheerleading team her freshman year and found herself having to act a certain way to fit in:
In order to make friends, I believed that I couldn’t be myself. It wasn 't that the girls on my squad were into bad things; they didn 't necessarily do things I agreed with. I kept trying to become something I wasn 't to impress them, and when it didn 't work, I only tried harder. Looking back, I regret it because I sacrificed my values to fit in.
This only escalated when she got voted onto homecoming court. Her cousin became jealous and turned everything into a competition between them, even with friends. Emily explained how her cousin began to spread rumors about her to the new friends she had made, recalling, “it was awful, she made up these horrible things to try to get my friends to exclude me and made herself out to be the good guy.” This caused her to believe that she had to hide her achievements and could not excel in what she

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