Illegal Immigrant: A Short Story

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Now! Yelled Barry. Next thing I knew I was running at top speed and Matt was on my tail. 10 meters, 5 meters in less than a second I passed the finish line with matt two steps behind. “Yess I won!! Come on pay up” I screamed. I bet matt $20 that I was faster. “Yeah yeah here's the money,” said Matt as he hands me a $20 bill. “You guys are so slow compared to me” states Barry. I knew berry ever since we were kids he's gotten faster since then.
“I remember when we all met,”said Barry.
I met them when I got to us they were the only once that actually accepted me as part of this country. I was teased for being Asian, I was called small eyes and outsider. Berry and Matt were the only once that accepted me as part of this country.
“Thank you,” I said.
“ What do you mean? For what?” asked Matt, confused.
“For everything, you guys were the only once that accepted me as an actual American when everyone was calling me an outsider,” I said, I should stop I'm making it depressing.
“No it's ok, look you were an American to me cause you flowed the law and you were an illegal immigrant , to me that an
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When I was young I thought that America was a place where you can come and start a new life and yes it's true you can come and starts a new life but the thing is that they never tell you that you're going to work twice as hard as other Americans so that made me think that a true American was fat, lazy and to loathe people because about 35% of all Americans were obese so that made me believe it, even more, I believed that you needed to be fat and lazy to be an American. But how I know that it’s not true yeah there is a lot of obese people but Americans do not loathe for example in the story …….(quilt of a country).........she talks about all the disparate parts and how they got together in time of need to help those in need, I might be wrong but that doesn't sound like

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