Sticks and Stones

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For love within a family, love that's lived in

But not looked at, love within the light of which

All else is seen, the love within which

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

Everyone has issues with their parents. That's just common knowledge. Most people my age will tell you they hate their parents:

Not many people say that last one.

On the surface, I have a great family, and therefore a great life. My mother and father have been happily married for twenty-one years. I have a younger brother, Robbie, and also a younger sister, Rachel. And we have a dog. I also have a huge extended family: one grandfather, two grandmothers, seven uncles, eight aunts, and eleven cousins.

My parents both work. My mother works as a supervisor of the mammography department of a hospital, and my father works as a supervisor of a mechanical department of an aluminum plant. Also, my father sleeps during most of the day because he works the "grav


I then tried the windows, but I couldn't get away from my father long enough to get one open.

With angry, worried tears streaming down her cheeks, she searched my pockets until she found my car keys. She put them in her purse and said she'd be at work to pick me up when I got off at 9:30PM. I told her that I wasn't going to be there.

I then grabbed the phone, and called my boyfriend, Scott. And with it being so early, I woke him up. I was crying so hard that he couldn't understand me. "Scott, come and get me, PLEASE! My dad hit me, Scott, and I need to get out-" But then my mother grabbed the phone from me and told him to stay where he was and to leave us alone. She hung up on him.

I don't know what the future holds for me or my family. I might be living here for five more years. Then again, I might be living here for five more days. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said "Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." I know that no matter what I do in my house, I'm wrong. But if I have the same outcome either way, why care?

He didn't take me to Scott's house; he took me home. However, he did give me my car keys upon our arrival, and told me I could go if I wanted to.



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Approximate Word count = 2581
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)

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