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Living In Two Worlds By Marcus Mabry
“Living in Two Worlds” by Marcus Mabry is a short story in which he writes about the discomfort he experiences traveling between the two worlds of poverty at home and richness at Stanford. Mabry goes to school with a full scholarship and lives a pretty decent life while his family live in poverty in New Jersey. Some of the things that the author compares are geographical differences between the two world, social differences, and his guilt feeling toward his family.
The author writes about geographical differences between New Jersey and Stanford. Mabry writes about his brother who is unemployed and lives in a very icy place. Meanwhile, the author describes himself “In mid- December I was Stanford, among the palm trees and weighty chores of

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