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Teen Ink Magazine, February 2008 : CollegeEssays Articles

Flying
by Alex N., Oak Park, CA
     Ever since I was old enough to dream, I have imagined myself soaring with the eagles. My love of flying has sculpted the way I live and the person I have become.
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by Laura S., Brooklyn, NY
     Borscht and baked potatoes were on everyone’s lunch menu in my native land of Belarus. Everyone who had such a lunch was fair-skinned and spoke Russian.
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My Role
by Elana B., Glen Allen, VA
     It was hard to accept, but the dreaded day had finally arrived. I still remember the tears welling up in my six-year-old sister’s eyes as she looked around the empty closet in wonder. The space once filled with his clothes now held only loneliness and sorrow.
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by Katrina A., New York, NY
     The truth is, opening your heart can be dangerous. My solution has always been to write it down piece by piece. Now, taking a deep breath and looking at an unfamiliar crowd, I let poetry speak the words that I normally would not say.
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