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Boo Radley's Diary

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“The only thing we should have to fear is fear itself.” There are so many things, us as humans being feared. We shouldn’t because fearing something that only exists is something that only exists in our heads. I myself have fears just like everyone else.
That me telling you what I’m scared and what I fear is very serous to me I get scared very easy. And I can go to my grandma and my dad or my mom so they can comfort me when I’m scared or the creature that I’m about to tell you. What I fear is spider they are wired and gross and the appeared, yet mostly snakes they all scared me a lot I just can’t handle it when I see them.my parent are the ones who always squish the creatures for me because it just scares me. I can’t imagine how it would if
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