A Writer's Personal Prejudice

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Prejudice can mean a lot of things. It could mean inequality for the color of someone’s skin, sexual orientation, gender or someone's ethnicity. This essay will be about this writer’s personal prejudice situation. It will mainly include how someone can be mistreated because of their sexual orientation. While reading, you will learn new things about this writer.

This situation took place at this writer’s grandparents’ party. Two months prior this situation; this writer told her parents about her sexual orientation being bisexual. Her parents accepted her with open arms, but her grandparents’ reaction was unfortunately not the same. This writer’s mom told her mom and stepdad about their grandchild. The grandparents reacted harshly. They

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