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After reading David Sedaris' "Me Talk Pretty One Day", I have a good understanding of the many challenges he went through to try to achieve his goal. These challenges played a big part in him learning the French language. As I'm sure most challenges do, they also made him feel as though there was no hope in achieving his goal at times. I agree with the author's goal because I have had similar experiences where I felt like giving up. One of those was when I went to college the first time, as a new, single mother as well. I had plenty working against me. I had to learn to be a mother by myself, work full time to pay my bills, and go to school full time as well. Things began to seem as though they were designed for me to fail. My grades
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