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Snow Sandra Dihlmann, Instructor ENG 272—Creative Writing
Nonfiction Assignment: Write a personal essay.  So Let Me Be  I
used to hate God. I used to hate a lot of things before I knew
her, before what she showed me. I hated the world. I didn’t want
to hate it, but I felt it hated me. I didn’t belong anywhere,
because I had been everywhere, moving around most of my life. I
had seen, heard and been too many different things. I was
“punk,” “gangsta’,” “rebel,” “emo,” “the perfect child,” “the
problem child,” “jockey,” and “geek.” I was looked up to and
looked down on. I was almost every type of person you could put
a label on, but nobody who really knew me could fit me into a
stereotype. I didn’t fit in anywhere. I didn’t belong anywhere.
If I had friends I was “hanging out” with, I could never just be
myself. There were always so many different parts of myself I
had to hide. If I acted “punk” or “emo” when I was with my
trash-talking “homies,” wh