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5:30 am on a cool fall morning. A gust of wind swirls around two figures in the darkness. A trail of smoke is blown away as the tiny end butt of a cigarette light burns weakly. A woman's fingers shake from the cold as she passes off the last of the butt. The young man reaches for it but it drops to the floor, he looks down at it and stomps out the last few ashes with his boot. She says, “I’m sorry about that” with a look of worry on her face that quickly transforms into a single tear falling down her rosy cheeks. He stepped closer to her, wh...
Contains Bullying "I just want to cut it!" screams Jedda from across the room. "Your hair is so beautiful, Why would you want to do that?" says her mother with concern in her eyes. "It's just not me," Jedda wines trying to fight back tears. "Do you wanna be a boy or something?" "No... I just... I wanna be myself... and I just... I just can't with this hair so long!" Jedda is in her last year of middle school and is still trying to discover who she is and what she wants out of life. Her mom is trying to ...
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