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Personal Narrative: My Life On Orcas Island
My family lived on Orcas Island for ten years, and now I am free. The island, though beautiful, felt tiny and far away from everywhere important. A majority of my days in high school I willed myself through classes by filling notebooks with drawings of space stations and birds. The only two activities that I really enjoyed were Art Club, which I did for three years, and Yearbook Club, which I did for two. These activities were the only real sense of accomplishment during my time on the island. A terrible high school math experience set me up for a belief that I did not have the brains for math or science, and in junior and senior year of high school my online running start classes combined horribly with this lack of confidence in my academic
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