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While growing up, did you feel lonely or not accepted by your loved ones or family members? As humans, we want people, including parents, to be happy and accept us for us. Feeling loved and accepted from people who we look up to is a basin human instinct. The narrative, "Only Daughter" by Sandra Cisneros, shows us readers how no encouragement and acceptance can determine how a persons life may turn out. Cisneros's challenges affect her life in so many ways, but it shapes her to the wonderful writer she is today. The narrative, "Only Daughter" by Sandra Cisneros, is about being the only daughter out of six boys. Cisneros informs us how she felt left out because her father would tell others he was the father of seven sons, but he was the father
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