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Joe By Luke Shin

I was taking the long way home. I tried to clear the image out of my head when my teacher yelled at me. Said I didn’t show any effort in school. This was not what I imagined when I moved here, to the “land of opportunity”. I was happy living my life in Africa, when my parents finally racked up enough money and decided that we’d be better off in the US. Now I’m stuck here and I have to figure out how to make the “best” of it. Not working out too well for me. Anyway, on the way home, I saw a bunch of people in that junk lot that was cleaned of its junk a couple days before by these guys that looked like they were from prison. It’s


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