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It is often said that an education is the one gift that none can take away from you. While this saying is one that applies to all education, whether formal or otherwise, for me it applies in a special way to the Catholic education that I have been raised with. I have grown up in a Catholic family and attended Catholic schools since pre-school so I may be biased in saying so, but I do believe that a Catholic Education is a gift of a lifetime. No where else but in a Catholic school, could I have been granted the opportunity to spend my most crucial and formative years in an environment that nurtures and cares for every member of its community. I am so endlessly blessed to be able to wake up each morning and go to a place where I will be surrounded by a system of beautifully complex and wonderfully supportive students and teachers among whom I will not only learn, but be challenged to expand my thinking and reach higher than I thought possible. It is the close-knit Group that is my class of 2019, that I have a grown to know so deeply and personally, that pushes me to do better in both how I succeed in school and how …show more content…

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