got a poll going on how long you'll last. That's how much my family believed in me. I planned on proving them wrong and I had already overcome many obstacles in those first few weeks of basic training, the Worrier Tower being the most challenging in strength. Though to make it through " total control," the first three weeks of training, was to know you'd make it all the way. The wake ups at four thirty in the morning with a Drill Sergeant coming in screaming and yelling to get you up. More yelling would come once we were ready and outside.
             My dad once told me I was too headstrong for something like this, but I never quite understood him. My senior year at Coventry High School in Ohio a new principal, Mr. Gotchal, came to the school. He seemed to think he could change us overnight and put in place a series of new rules, though he didn't bother to ensure that those who started the day elsewhere knew of these r
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