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Augie: A Short Story
MY "FAKE" FRIEND!!! Auggie Pullman's so called friend was talking about Auggie straight to his face without even knowing it. If I was in Augie's position,instead of running away from this problem I would run towards it. I would go up to jack and say
"Look dude, I thought we were friends, but friends don't talk about one another behind their backs. You can stop pretending to be my friend and F-Y-I,it isn't my fault I look like this God made me this way because he knew I could handle it in situations like this."
Then I would walk away and act like nothing ever happened and I would never talk to jack again.

Juliana
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