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Tamara Sanchez: A Short Story

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Tamara Sanchez grew up like any other kid. If anything, she may have even grew up as overwhelmingly average. She grew up with some challenges, but nothing she couldn’t overcome. Everything she faced, she defeated. Her parents divorced when she was little. She paid it no mind. A five year old has stuff to do, after all. Business to get done. So she grew up side by side with her siblings and her mom. She developed to become spunky, with a fiery spirit and short temper, but was constantly checking herself the whole way to make sure she didn’t go overbroad. Her life started with a center around family and friends, and so, that main concept had a large and lasting impact on her life.
Spanish was her first language, so when she moved from Puerto …show more content…

But, then middle school happened. So what comes with this horrible concept known as middle school? Many things. Boys. Responsibility. Tangible friendships. Embarrassing scene phases. Coming of age events even. But, the most present factor in Tamara’s life at this point was bullies. Well, and boys, but at this point we’re getting into the slightly sad and negative downscale dip of the narrative, so we’ll save the boys for later. Tamara, like many other 12 year olds, was just on that cusp of development where baby fat and puberty weight gain …show more content…

Her family was her everything, and the tension that manifested itself within the Sanchez household, she nearly failed her freshman year of high school. Over the next few years, her life was all over the place. She broke up with her boyfriend. Slipped into an on and off relationship with someone else, had fights with her friends over the dumbest things. It was hell. Then you put education on top of that. Hell squared. Left and right, Tamara was angry. Family drama at home, friend drama at school. Some of her friends found new ones. The relationship Tamara had with her sister dwindled. So what comes from this?

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