Preliminary Feature Writing Practice (startling statement)

Liam hates lying. Although he's done it a couple times, he always regrets it. He's well aware that with lies come consequences, but at that moment he's fearful of what his mom may think or do. He doesn't want to be perceived negatively, but he knows that even when he's honest he still gets yelled at. Whatever it is he does, his mom always thinks it's wrong.

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Aiden & Ashley uncover their path towards self-love and self-acceptance. Openly discussing their hardships, realizations, and overall journeys with self. Self-love and self-acceptance look completely and utterly different to each and every person you encounter. "We all struggle with accepting or loving some part of ourselves", Ashley says. For Ashley, it was always the inability of accepting and embracing the physical vessel she had been brought into this world with. "I always hated social media and the Ideas it enabled into my mind as a 10-year-old." The unrealistic ways in which media portrays women tremendously affected the way Ashley started perceiving herself. She thought that in order to fit society's definition of "pretty", she must have had to carry each trait she noticed the women on TV had, a tiny waist, hairless bodies, no stretch marks, or pimples, and so on. Because Ashley fed into this preconceived idea of how a "truly...

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