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Submitted to Contest #69
I have never gotten along with my family. And, don’t get me wrong, they are amazing people. But I have never felt fully accepted. Maybe it’s because I was abandoned at birth, and was left in an orphanage until I was 7. And though I was adopted relatively early on, the resentment I had fostered lasted through the rest of my childhood and adolescence. I could never quite place my finger on the reason why I hated my adoptive family so much. They had always tried so hard to get me to open up to them, and yet I’d always rejected them. And, to thi...
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