Personal Narrative: My Future Racist

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Being an optimist, right off the bat, i would hope people, even my roommate, would notice my calm bubbly personality. Most try to notice the pessimist in people, but me? I try to find out what value people have, in hope they do the same to me. I want my future roommate to know, i can make a change. I want to invent vaccines, prolong people's lives, find the cure to cancer even. They need to know my appreciation for science, more importantly, biomedical science. Dealing with the immune system and disparate diseases, helping mothers find who their child can become, and not just another sufferer of cancer. My roommate must know, Most haven’t had it easy, like myself, who hasn’t had the chance to know who my real grandmother is or she know me,

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