Premium Content Barefooted Bliss
by Michela A Fitten - November 01, 2006
Open ended personal statement.
At Brown, the Carrie Tower chimes, class beckons, and I walk in barefoot.
Barefoot like my abuela, who at the age of seventeen chased down the thief who snatched her purse. Armed with only indignation and pride, her feet pounded the soft earth of Mexico City as she thundered down the grassy calzada in murderous pursuit. She caught the thief…
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