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General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
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I am not her

Submitted by ggevalt on September 11, 2006 - 08:04.


By Jenn Gingras
Champlain Valley Union High School


I am sorry, for not being perfect, as you wish I was. I am not her.
I am sorry that you compare me to her, when you know that I am nothing like her
I am sorry.

We look nothing a like, we act nothing a like. If it hasn’t occurred to you lately, I am not her. Two different names, two different styles, two different personalities. Two different people.
I am sorry. I am not her

You look at my report card, as if you are expecting something more from me. You can only push me so hard, before I break down, and give up. I am about at my boiling point. I walk through the hallways and expect a warm hello from everyone. Instead I get “aren’t you?” For the last time I am her sister. What gave it away?
Now take a good look at me

I am different; I am one who takes everything to heart, only when in the mood, Sensitive at times, caring when I want to be, Random all the time, sarcastic and it doesn’t matter what time of the day it is, I am always smiling. Now try to compare us, try to find some similarities. You can’t!
I am sorry,

I am not her.

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