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Reading And Writing Personal Statement

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When I was in elementary school, I used reading and writing as an outlet. I was fascinated, not only by the plot lines, but by the form of expression itself. I decided at an early age that my future career would revolve around literature, with me as the world renouned author, following footsteps of J.K. Rowling and Rick Riordan. This belief carried me into middle school, when I enrolled in a humanities magnet program, and was given the opportunity to discover what being a patron of the written arts fully entailed. Despite meticulous planning on my part about my future education and career, my passion for reading and writing is not what will define me as a member of the labor force. Moving from DC to Chicago eight grade year disrupted my middle
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