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Submitted to Contest #33
When I was a kid, we were too poor to afford a haircut. I was 13 and had never had one. No one in my house had. I grew up in section 8 housing and my mom was on welfare. Even though we grew up in a poor neighborhood, my mom was the only adult I knew who didn’t work. Even among poor people, I felt like I wasn’t good enough. I always felt like I had to fight to be like everyone else, whatever that meant. A couple of kids in my neighborhood had recently gotten haircuts. They were nothing special, but their new looks still added some pep to thei...
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