anything extraordinary in origin or beginning. Yet, I feel I am special for one reason: I am me and no

one else is. I have interests my peers do not, I have my own unique goals, and have had my own

unique experiences--all of which make me, me.

If you want to know the truth, I have many interests, but very few get attention. Of all my

interests music, church, and golf probably get the majority of my attention (unless you count my

girlfriend, she occupies most of my conscious time as well as that time I am dreaming). I will state

something now: I can barely read music, and am currently having a bear of a time trying to learn the

piano. Instead, I delight in talent of others. My music collection is shamefully large. At times, I find it

ludicrous at the amount of hard earned cash I blow on the little, thin plastic discs. In fact, my

addiction is so strong that I spent four-hundred dollars on a CD-burner, just so I could make my on

discs. Yet, to this day I still continue to pay full price for new releases--will I ever learn?

As aforementioned, I also have a love for my church. I feel more comfortable amongst the

to attend a church service. Had this not occurred I might still be living a kind of hermit lifestyle with

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have gotten sick, I would have never met a kid named (name), and he would have never invited me

God's presence at (church) is overwhelming. I have never felt as strongly about religion in all my

my neighbor when we were children. He and the neighbor kid used to always play day and night, up

It appears I have only spent time writing about my interests, but don't worry I have goals

and finding a place to live and raise children comfortably in--in other words, live the "American

attendance and I feel akin to the various other acquaintances present. Other than the fellowship,

doesn't pan out, Elvis Grbac might need to start worrying; (2) be a cast member of Survivor; and (3)

o anywhere else in the whole world. My closest friends are in regular

that being a counselor or type of psychiatrist is what I have been called to do, and I feel that getting a

(school) golf team, and by a miracle--that could only be divine in nature--I made the team. I would

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