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I’ve got to go home and show my mom my ‘C’. How great. But why am I scared? One ‘C’ on a test isn’t gonna scar me forever. I mean, of course, I’m scared of my parents. But who wouldn’t be? But that isn’t all. I’ve felt that fear before but my feeling now is different. It might be the fear of this being punishment from God. Maybe I’m a horrible person and he’s just punishing me for what I do. It’s close but that’s not exactly what I feel. Maybe I’m just a failure. Why couldn’t I have done better? Am I capable of doing better? Most people I know can and have done better. So why do I just suck? Am I really a failure? Or am I doing this to myself? Am I my own enemy?
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