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Rhondaism's Role In Everyday Life

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Did you know that statistics show that the average American spends 40 hours a week watching TV (Chambers, 2015)? Some Americans even spent 121 billion minutes a month on social media. Those numbers astonish me. I think before my starting college I may have heard TV that much at least, but I was and am too active to sit while listening to watch it. As for the Facebook, I was active, possible not this much, but some of my friends think I 've died because I no longer have time to write my funny daily novels in the life of Rhondaism 's, as it is referred to; or sadly even say hi.

My everyday life as a single mother of a very active boy makes it very hard to find the time to devote all that I need in college, and life in general; much

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