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Choices For The Other Wes Moore

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In “The Other Wes Moore” Wes Moore, the author, and Wes Moore, the eventual murderer, make different decisions that ultimately determined their destiny. Wes Moore, the author, made many valuable decisions, of these the most crucial choose that he made was choosing to stay at Valley Forge Military School. For the first few days of Military School Wes wanted nothing to do with it, He hates the idea of being away from everyone he knew, and always being told what to do. He even admits to trying to run away a few times. In spite of this after the first year was said “I’d actually started to enjoy Military School.” (Moore, 115) Military School had significantly impacted Wes more than he ever imagined. Wes says “Years earlier, I had run through these

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