Words Of Enlightment
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Ongoing, First published Feb 27, 2016
Mature
"Now, when I first arrived to Arizona, I pictured your typical cactus with a plentiful of sand surrounding everything,but it's a little more than that. In fact , it's quite beautiful actually. 

I've started school here at McLean High.
There's a variety of blacks,whites and Hispanics. 
I myself distance myself from race and consider myself just  human, but if we're going to be detailed here, I'm a Latin-American boy. My mother is from Nicaragua, my father is from Puerto Rico. 
 I'm 16 and living it indeed.5'7 with pretty decent tan skin.I'm quite a sight to see if I do say so myself, why ,who doesn't love some basic brown eyes and black hair? Fools is what I'd say.
Jokes aside, we can all agree we have our own perspective on what is appealing. I think that's what I'd call a little chunk of me. I won't bore you to death now. 
Thank you."
I step of the podium, recollecting my  breathe.
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