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You Are Alone Analysis

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“You are alone”, “You have no friends nobody likes me”, “You’re so ugly”, “Why would anybody want to be your friend”, “You can’t do anything right”, “how could you get the scholarship they’re all smarter than you”, “How dumb can you be?” “She’s so pretty, sucks that you can never look like that,” says the thoughts that goes on in my head all day. Having these kinds of thoughts in my head has really made me feel alone for many years in my life. Because of these insecurities I wasn’t able to make her a close friend I was in able to go out with my friends, have long conversations, and I wasn’t able to stand up for myself. I became a follower. I was looking for someone to be my friend and I didn’t really care and because of that I fell into a

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