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Paper On Irony

As children we make many idle threats and angry promises, never
realizing the impact they could bestow upon our lives. At the age of
fifteen I learned that lesson the hard way. The words my mother and I had
exchanged during common adolescent--parent confrontations were now my
reality. I had no parent figure in my life, and I was on my own.

I remember sitting in the living room as she packed her things.
I only remember bits and pieces of our conversation. I am not even really
sure it would be considered a conversation, I think it was mostly for her
benefit and her conscious. She told me how I was old enough to make my own
decisions and that her new boyfriend needed her more. ...

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mother=s bed thinking about the party I would have this weekend and the
many weekends after. Then I heard it: something stirring in the house. I
jumped up and rushed to the windows as I looked out my eyes were enveloped
in blackness, and my ears were drowning in silence. That=s when I heard it;
thump, thump, thump and I heard it again but faster. Fear was sucking the
very life breath out of me. I grabbed the gun and ran frantically from room
to room while this sound pursued me getting louder and faster. That sound
didn=t go away that night nor for many nights after. I slept with a gun
under my pillow hoping to scare the sound away, but I soon realized my
heart beating alone in the silence wasn=t afraid of my gun, just the
emptiness.

I never got used to having that big house to myself but it got
more tolerable. I counted the days until my sixteenth birthday, I would no
longer be a prisoner to my home, I would be free. My freedom finally came
in the form of a 1986 ...

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Added: 1/22/2008 01:34:59 AM
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 643
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