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M aria Carolina Nelson

August 22,1985

Caracas,Venezuela
"No llores si no puedes ver el sol porque las lagrimas no te
dejaran ver las estrellas"

this quote i learnedat camp... i must have been10 years old...

a year later I arrived..yes, I became a Carrollton student... wha ,
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I have livedhere all these years...cannot be writtendownina fev

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lines...but howit has touchedmylife...can be seeninthe persor

I amgraduating as... thank you... myfriends, myteachers, any

other personthat has passedme byall this time... it is each of

you... each andeverysingle one of youthat make me stronger...

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made me smle...several times truly suffer fromlaugh attacks... ;
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shedsome tears...correct mstakes...on papers or actions...but

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most importantly...inspire me to keepon...by allowng me to dream..and have that freedomto be...simply be...that who1am..it be
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a foreigner...it be a student...even a class president...a sister...a girlfriend...a daughter...comng downto a human person...the one 1
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thing of mycomponents I amnowholding unto are mymemories...what may come I cant tell...but what 1have left behindme...i wl!
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forever remember...all the mnutes andseconds I livedto experience those memories... I can count...but what they have done inme...

is immeasurable...my heart is wthall of you...
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"Not everythingthat can be countedcounts, andnot everythingthat counts can be counted"

-Abert Einstein
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Ma cla Carolina Nelson