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Personal Narrative: Kissing Sarah
Kissing Sarah for the first time, it was like Aerosmith lyrics flashed through my mind; “I could spend my life in this sweet surrender, I could stay lost in this moment forever.” I hope to spend my life with you to experience every moment, every aspect, I told her, and she said, if she could choose, not one second will be away from me.
My parents never acknowledge that they can’t control my life anymore. When they started sit me down and list suitable wife’s, I had to finally tell them that I’ve already found my wife and if I can’t marry her then don’t expect me to get married.
Sarah’s Parents did have a control over her life, in one of the backward culture of our time, a male guardian can decide the fate of a female under his guardianship


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