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Personal Narrative: My Last Court Hearing
My thoughts on the book remind me of how I like to hang back and listen to what others have to say. Most individuals will come to me thinking that I have all the answers to their problems, when in fact I do not. Therefore, I will most often fall into the listener, with no one actually wanting to hear what I have to say. It is during this time I find myself feeling overwhelmed, and avoided, to the conversation. In my last court hearing, I have to set and listen to a women tell everyone how much she could not stand her son, and how she wanted him out of her house. Then the mother of the young man blames me for all her problems because I had him released from a detention center after four years. Whereas, instead of screaming at her that she was
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