Ceidricson's Accomplishments

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Cedric's was a black young male that lived in a ghetto neighborhood. He was a low income young male. Cedric's main goal is to make it all the way to college. The school he attended to was a really bad school. Cedric was left behind by his education before college. He had alot of things to go through with his mom always struggling with payments. He had a difficult life lived in the ghetto his father was in jail but Cedric has a dream. His dream was to attend college a good one. He waned to accomplish his dream so bad that he worked so hard. Cedric was a hard working young guy he had big dreams (accomplishments) for his college goal. He would always get on time to school well early. Cedric would only have a chance to

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