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This Too Shall Pass

When my family moved to Ohio over the summer, I feared attending another new school and knowing no one because I was able to expect what was coming. I had bright red hair and enormous glasses. In addition, I was_______and not very sociable.

Boarding the school bus that first day, I felt like all eyes on me. I could hear the_______“She’s huge!” Obviously, the kids on the bus had known each other well. I spent that first bus_______in silence.

The following day was even_______. I did not notice that a few boys had tied a shoelace across the aisle   and thus fell face first on the bus, _________everything I was carrying. _________I was embarrassingly gathering   my supplies, I could hear the laughter, and then the_______“That felt like an   earthquake!” Anyway,   I_______ to find a seat. Looking out of the window, I_______the tears welling up in my eyes.

It was then that I sank into myself. I began walking everywhere. I would wander through the woods behind our house. I would also walk to a________about two miles down the road, where I would chat silently   with myself. I began________the afternoon school bus on purpose, walking home instead. Then,________, I     started losing weight. And as I became content with myself, I began making________.

One of my newly-found friends also________with her weight, wanting to be a “perfect” cheerleader. She   lived near my neighborhood so we would meet and________together. This became a daily activity with talking and laughing________the way—different from the lonely walks I had taken. My friend said that I didn’t have     to be perfect. I just had to be me, and be happy with________.

While I would not want to________that time of loneliness, sadness and embarrassment, I am________I made it through. Whenever I am struggling with any other problem in life, I always remember the proverb “This too shall pass.” If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t________anywhere.