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Stereotypes Of Myself-Personal Narrative Analysis
A time when I stereotype a person was my roommate Dave. Dave’s is a cool guy we get along great, and now he is one of my closest friends. However, he’s a skater and I never hung out or around with those kinds of people in my life. So, I had assumed he was into all kinds of drugs. Ranging from hard core drugs like heroin, too soft core, that are not big of a problem, like marijuana. So, to say the least our first week was tough. But after a while of us getting to know one another and him finally telling me that he only smokes weed. Which I don’t care if he does or not if he does it outside the apartment because of how much the stuff smells and our leasing agreement. Now that we gotten to know each other and have become friends we laugh about

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