Personal Narrative: My Life In Cleveland

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I came to Cleveland a little while back when I was 15, poor, hungry and alone, my mum and my dad had died in a fire and my brother and sister, well for them, I don’t really know. But, they have mum and dad with them now. In order to live a life I had to raise money from doing jobs and my house wasn’t at all really a house at all, but that was all six years ago, i’m in college now and have an apartment home with a job. Although life in Cleveland for me is really depressing, I am a falling victim of people cyberbullying and bullying me at school, am I really somebody to hate that much ? It makes me want to sleep and never see the day again, i’m fighting my depression with the help of a very spunky, persistent, reliable person to ask for help, Leona, like a cat that never gives up on catching its mouse, it reminds me of Tom & Jerry, we meet every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday.

I went to school today, it was a Wednesday, and as usual I got my clothes dirty, well actually not me, the other students threw their lunches at me, I smelled like chocolate pudding, yuck! I better go change my clothes, I’m meeting Leona at 4:15 and its 3:20, I had about an hour before going so I took my time going home. I heard around the corner, loud conversations and when I came to the corner I continued to walk and saw a lot of people laughing, and smiling at each other in a luscious, flourishing garden that was once an empty lot. I felt a weird feeling in my heart that I hadn’t felt in a long time, a feeling that was warm, like sipping the first time out of a hot tea cup. It felt like forever when I was staring at them, and I was at peace, bringing back memories about the past and the love that I will never get again for I am Alexandra Letington, the person nobody liked. I went to work today, it’s Friday and again I passed by the garden seeing people be all jubilant and seeing people interacting with other people. Loena saw me while she was tending to her growing goldenrod and my spine flinched, I tried avoiding her when I saw her calling me, but in the past she told me “ don’t run away from your fears, face them straight on and you can accomplish great things”, I decided to face it head on, I took a deep breath and I walked to the garden. I was as nervous as sparrows watching for predators that might come get them, and KI arrived trying to keep in the anxiety I felt.Leona said, “Come on, girl you're wasting time, let's get going”. I put a little speed into my walk, and greeted Leona, I helped her with her plot of land tending to the goldenrod and I looked around and I saw the garden that was full over fruits and vegetables like, tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, pumpkins, eggplants, onions, corn, hot peppers the colors of the rainbow reflected the beauty of the plants. After caring for Amir’s garden I looked at the time, and my work shift was already done an hour ago. I had been so busy with all of the gardening I didn’t know where the time flew, people kept asking me to help with their gardens and I got carried away. But, I gained new friends from this
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It was starting to get colder as December approached, and by that time I had been so full of thoughts my plant thoughts were buried in the back of my head. But after going to work again I looked back at the garden and everything had withered but one plant, it was a rosy pink color and was in the back, it was my plant that I picked once so long ago. From there on forth I took care of the plant like it was my child but not needing to do much with the snow. Out of all the plants that where once there were not, but the beauty remained in the garden as the pink camelia’s prospered while the winter gloom was near the little sensitive plant was the last standing in the garden, that was once, an empty

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