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Personal Narrative: My Label Experience
My label experience took place at the Jackson Medical Mall. I am a very shy person and this activity was really challenging. As I walked up to the first person and explained the assignment I was greeted with a smile. The first word of the day was friendly, followed by happy, energetic, three people choose humble, important, conservative, shy, and kind. Although I was so very nervous and hesitant to do this project it turned out nice.
As I walked the mall people looked at me very strangely with the labels on me and I felt horribly embarrassed. A few patrons wanted to why I had the stickers on me and what did they represent. I explained it was a class assignment to see how labels affect us and some thought it was an interesting idea. Although

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