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"Do I Have Stupid Written On My Forehead?"

Story ID:2383
Written by:Veronica Elizabeth Foust
Story type:Diary/Journal Entry
Writers Conference:$500 2007 Family Memories Writing Project
Location:Greensboro North Carolina USA
Year:2007
Person:myself
Sometimes I just feel like people look at me and think I am an easy target. I feel like I have always been taken advantage of my whole life. The last few months I have been making it a point for this to stop happening to me and I feel like I am eliminating people from my life because of this. I broke off my relationship with my 2 daughters because of this problem and now I find myself in the same situation with my father. I thought that our relationship was going good until I asked him for a favor recently. I have found myself changing as a person over the last year and I believe my changes have been for the good for me. I just want people to know that I am a human being just like everyone else and I do have feelings. Life is a give and take situation and I just feel that all people want to do is take from me and never give back anything in return. There comes a time in one's life when you must say that enough is enough. I feel this is where I am in my life and I need to let others know that this is where I am. I feel that people just don't really know what is important in life today. Material items are just not as important as family is because you can replace material items but not family.
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