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Middle School Sweaters
Since my year as a sixth-grader, I never felt comfortable without a sweater on. Because of this, I wore a sweater all three years of middle school. The sweater I wore alternated as a school year passed by. The sweater I always wore during my sixth-grade year looked as if you shared the wool of a black sheep to produce it. I wore it so often, I was dubbed by my friends the “Black Sheep”.
One day in eighth-grade, when the warm temperatures were coming back and the end of the school year nears closer, a friend commented about the new sweater I wrote. It was a significant contrast of the first sweater I wrote back in sixth-grade, solid white and thin as paper, but it still reminded them of it anyways. Now, I could not tell whether it was the fact

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