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Premium Content How my friend affected my life

by Anonymous - September 29, 2007

Write an essay in which you tell us about someone who has made an impact on your life and explain how and why this person is important to you.

The crack of the shoulder pads atop two burly young men signals that the high school football season is in full swing. If not for the electric Friday nights under the lights of a shrine to hard work, there would be weeks when I simply existed and hadn’t really lived. But on these nights when the school comes together just as I do to cheer and…

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