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by Anonymous - November 01, 1998

Describe an event or experience that had a significant impact on your identity.

Suspended on the wall of my father’s office is a photograph of someone I once knew well yet now barely recognize, a girl with a thick mane of platinum hair and a bronze, painted face. Images of this girl dance through my memory whenever my eyes fall on the picture. I recall the doctrine to which she strictly adhered throughout her first year of…

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