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Aaron
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This is a story that takes place in the mind of a dreaming character. Jump into an adventure through different worlds and experience a combination of dreams that the author actually had himself.
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Abel
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Abel Abyu; Man-child of a most prestigious breed...
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Alma
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Alma was born and raised in Oakland. Living with her mom and her younger brother, she feels the urge to help her family and be a role model to her brother. There are no limitiations to your success. She hopes to attend San Diego State or San Francisco State. |
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Adrian
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Adrian was born in Oakland, CA but has lived Berkeley his whole life. Music is his life and he hopes to study music in college and make a living from playing music. He likes to play guitar, bass, or any other instrument that he can get his hands on. He also enjoys meditating and hanging out with his friends all day.
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Ashley
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Ashley was adopted when she was 6 weeks old. She plays soccer nonstop, loves hanging with her friends, and LOVES Maya Angelou. Her memoir is about her head injury during a soccer game, and how she manages to handle the situation and come back a stronger character. She hopes to attend her top college choice in the fall.
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Avi
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Avi is a resident of Berkeley California. He is still an academic student,
despite being a second semester senior. Next Fall he is going to The Universityof Michigan to study engineering.
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Chris
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Chris Allen has lived in Berkeley, California his whole life. He lives life on the edge; he crosses bridges when he gets to them. Chris wants the reader to not feel sympathy for him in his story, things happen for a reason he claims. Chris plans on attending a 4 Year University in Los Angeles.
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Claire
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Being an animal and fantasy lover, Claire Engan decided to combine the two favorites, creating a darker than disney tale of a mouse and a cat who strive to survive in a post apocalypse setting. Claire plans to do some combination of biology and music when she enters college, possibly expanding into the veterinary science field.
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Danny
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Danny has lived in Berkeley his whole life. He enjoys playing baseball, hanging out with friends, and watching movies. Danny has many nicknames such as Dannyboy, Dboy, Roldy, Harold, and DanDan. He hopes you enjoy his memoir and encourages all underclassmen to take short stories senior year. Danny has no immediate plans for after high school.
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Devante'
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DeVante' moved from Elk Grove (Sacramento) to Berkeley in the middle of his junior year. Finding friends has never been something that was hard for him to do. Losing them is the hardest thing for him. This memoir shows what he had to go through and what he felt when he had to face one of the biggest changes of his life. He hopes that you enjoy it and says, "Class of 2010 rocks!!!!!!"
CLICK HERE AND YOU'LL GET MY SECOND STORY FREE!!
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Djuna
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Djuna has never left Berkeley for more then two weeks. She's been here forever! Coming from an adventurous, fun loving family. She loves to have fun. She hopes her memoir inspires you to strive for your dreams, even though they might be scary. She strives to study Forensic Anthropology at any college that will take her in.
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Donnay
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Donnay M. Givens is a senior at Berkeley High School. She has lived in The Bay Area her whole life. Next year she plans on going to Spellman College in Georgia. She wants to study to be a lawyer. Her second choice is to study to be a writer. She enjoys watching football and spending time with her family.
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Elana
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Elana Cohen cannot wait to be an old man.
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Emma L.
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Emma Lydon has lived in Berkeley all of her life. When she's not rescuing wildlife, she spends her time working for
The Jacket
and playing rugby. She plans on majoring in political science and attending law school.
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Emma S-S
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Emma is from Oakland. She is an only child who balances the clenched-abdomen repression of her father's side of the family and the shrieking chaos of her mother's side. She wishes her personal philosophy was “And that (Said John) Is That,” but really “La Vie Est Belle,” when said with a terribly sad expression, seems to sum it up better.
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Evan
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Evan Cohen has lived in Berkeley for his entire life. However he loves to travel. Hiking and backpacking have always been two of his greatest passions, and he hopes that you enjoy reading about one of his many adventures. Evan is an aspiring computer programmer and web designer, and hopes to study these fields in college and beyond.
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Frances
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Frances was born and raised in the Bay Area. She likes to laugh and think. She wants to do something, come Fall. She hopes you enjoy her story.
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Francisco
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My name is Francisco and I live in Berkeley,Ca. I like to do many things like play video games or just kick it with my friends but mostly be with my girlfriend which is mentioned in my memoir. I am also a big Jordan Head (Jordan Collector) I like to collect sneakers but ruin my life in a way when I can be studying or reading because I plan to go to a California State College as soon as I graduate.
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Giovanni
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Giovanni has lived in Berkeley for nine years while the other eight he spent it in Mexico living in the beautiful state of Michoacan. Having seen the many sacrifices that his parents had to go through, makes him motivated to achieve all his dreams. With his story, he hopes to help other teenagers make the right decisions in life.He hopes to graduate high school and attend a four year college to study engineering.
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Haley
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Haley loves Dane Cook and hopes the reference in her story isn’t lost on everyone. She also hopes that everyone who reads her story will be tempted to watch Hercules or any other Disney movies.
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Hannah G.
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Hannah grew up in Pt. Reyes Sta. and has spent the past three years in Berkeley. Her family taught her to love adventures in the great out doors. She hopes you don’t find her memoir to childish. Like Dr. Seuss, Hannah believes, “Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” She hopes to study international relations and diplomacy in college and work alongside Dr. Patch Adams.
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Hannah M.
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Though Hannah has grown up in Berkeley, she was born in North Carolina. She has been on the BHS crew team sence freshmen year. And would like to go to collage. She would also like to win ten million dollars and have the ability to fly, but we can have everything. She has now idea what she wants to do with her life, but will enjoy finding out.
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Hector
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Hector has lived in Richmond for a long part of his life, but he is currently living in Berkeley. His family comes from Mexico. He hopes to go to college and study some kind of engineering, maybe in construction.
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Ian
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Ian, simply put, is just amazing. He resides in Berkeley and enjoys playing violin, hiking, and going on long bike rides. Ian has a black belt in Kuk-Sool-Won and has raced for the Berkeley High Mountain Bike Team in 2009. You could easily pick him from a crowd due to his distinct appearance, ungainly stride, sexy model-like-figure and erratic behavior.
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Jambaldorj
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Jamba is loving his life and living it full as he can. He hopes that you will enjoy his short story. He also hopes to visit his home country Mongolia soon.
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Jasmine
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Jasmine was born and raised in Berkeley
California. At the age of twelve she discovered that she wanted to be
a obstetrician. She would love to attend Spellman or UC Davis. As you read
her memoir, know that she is a different person today.
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Jenna
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Jenna Brotsky is a senior at Berkeley High School. As a secular Jewish, straight girl, she hopes her story about a Catholic, gay boy is convincing.
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Jeremy
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Despite the content of this story, Jeremy Gleick is in fact a quite cheery person. Really! It's true! Why are you walking away shaking your head? Seriously, even though the story is...well, like this, he is quite upbeat and optimistic!
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Kali
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Kali has lived in Berkeley all her life. She comes from a big family, three
brothers and two sisters because of that she often feels overcrowded at times.
Like her favorite teacher has said "You can't say you like to write but don’t
like to read, they go hand in hand". Kali doesn’t know what college she wants to
attend yet but she does know that she wants to pursue what she loves which is
writing.
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Katie
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Katie unfortunately has a friend similar to her character Mika, and hopes that she will learn to be more careful from now on.
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Keke
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Click here for Keke's story.
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Keahara Monroe was born and raised in Oakland Ca, She moved to Berkeley in seventh grade and attended MLK middle school. She skipped the fith grade. She is a Senior now at Berkeley High and is 16 years old. She wants to attend Spelman College in the fall, and her favorite author is J.K Rowling.
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Kevin
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Kevin Yu is a first generation Chinese American. He was born in Boston MA, but moved to California when he was five. He enjoys rock climbing and going to the beach. He hopes to attend UC Davis to study ceramics.
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Lauren
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Lauren is planing on going to a four year collage, her first choice is Chico State because it is close to home but not to close. She loves to go to the beach and listen to music, as told in her story. Something you would never know about Lauren from looking at her is that she still is a sucker for disney movies especially Pocahantes.
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Leah
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Leah lives in Berkeley with her dog and her parents. The idea for this story came to her in one of those "what if?" moments while she was walking home from the bus stop, and when enough people said they liked it, she decided to write it.
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Liza
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Liza is one of six siblings. When she got lice her mother called her
“Lica” for months. Her mother, father, and brother each believe in one of
the 3 monotheistic religions. One leg is longer than the other. Liza loves Michael
Jackson, hot sauce, salt and boys in Vans.
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Madeleine
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Madeleine has lived her entire life in Berkeley, California.
She lives with her parents and has two older sisters. She is now a senior at
Berkeley High and plans to go to College next year.
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Maxx
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Maxx Koerner has spent most of his living memory in Berkeley, he spent the first few in Richmond. Being German in heritage, he comes off as stubborn and at times resourceful, though most of the time he is layed back. Currently he juggling between being a history teacher or a chef. He also speaks broken German.
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Maya D.
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Maya Drexler lives in Berkeley with her parents sisters and dog, Gus. She loves eating, laughing and likes to think that one day she will be on Oprah...and hopefully do some other cool things too.
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Maya M.
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Maya could go for some Gordo's right about now. Really.
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Mi-Re
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Mi-re is a Korean-American girl who was born and raised in Berkeley. She loves art, horseback riding, and food. She also enjoys traveling around the world. Her dream school is UC Davis. She wishes to travel abroad to Korea or Italy for further studies after college. Mi-re and her family are very family oriented and she owes her life to them.
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Molly Rose
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Molly Rose Morrissey has lived in Berkeley her whole life. She has one older sister, Caitlin, a mom, Lisa, and dad, Paddy. She plans to attend college in California. She loves creative writing and hopes you enjoy her story.
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Nathan
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Nubia
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Nubia spent her childhood in Mexico City, then moved to Berkeley and is currently living San Pablo. She has three siblings, two brothers and a sister whom she love spending time with. She hopes you enjoy reading about the first time she fell in love and all the things she went through. She believes everything happens for a reason and lives her life with no regrets. She hopes to attend SF State next fall.
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Patrick
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Patrick was born in Oakland, but spends time in Berkeley. Coming from an East Coast family, he is often traveling to Massachusetts. Patrick is a senior and plans to attend college next year out of state.
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Rachel Ch.
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Keahara Monroe was born and raised in Oakland Ca, She moved to Berkeley in seventh grade and attended MLK middle school. She skipped the fith grade. She is a Senior now at Berkeley High and is 16 years old. She wants to attend Spelman College in the fall, and her favorite author is J.K Rowling.
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Rachel Co.
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Rachel is from Oakland. Daughter of a hairstylist, she knows her mom will hate how terrible her hair looks in her picture and her dad will just laugh. She meant for her story to be creepy and thrilling, and hopes you take her word that she isn't disturbed in any way. Her college plans are mostly east coast.
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Sally
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Sally loves her mom.
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Samantha
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Samantha was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where her birth parents were attending college. Shortly after being adopted, she moved to Maryville, Tennessee, where she stayed for the next ten years. Despite her wishes, she eventually had to move to the Bay Area and has lived there ever since. Samantha enjoys astronomy and spending time with her cat, Peaches.
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Sareena
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I am a senior at Berkeley High School, I originally chose Spoken word but instead I got Short Story Reading and writing. I like it though. I plan on going to Howard University for Cinema Studies! No, I can't wait.
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Selam
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Selamawit Mersha is originally from Ethiopia, but has been living in Berkeley for six years. She is a senior at Berkeley High School. After high school she hopes to go to San Fransisco State and be a medicine student. She hopes you enjoy her memoir and learn a little about her trip back to her home country and her friendship with, Sarah.
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Tai
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Tai was born and raised in Berkeley, CA, except for the three years she lived in Hong Kong. She speaks fluent Japanese, thanks to her mother who has spoken to her in Japanese from birth. Tai has danced at Berkeley City Ballet since the age of six, and hopes to study dance pedagogy at Butler University in the fall.
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Tessala
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Being the true Berkeley native she is, Tessala is a bit strange by most standards. She enjoys walking around town barefoot and listening to trippy music. A few things that she can't stand on the other hand, are bad remakes of good songs, grape flavored candy, and fish. She hopes to study art and psychology in whatever college ends up accepting her.
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Trevor
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Trevor has lived in Berkeley his entire life and knows that his views, no matter how hard he tries, reflect his up bringing in Berkeley. He recognizes the importance of travel and gaining perspective. Next fall he is sure that he will be attending a college but is still unsure of where he wants to go.
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Valerie
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Valerie Dohrer was born and raised in in the wonderful city of Berkeley. Though she loves Berkeley with all her heart, she hopes to go to college in a land far far away. Valerie is deeply in love with theater and for the past four years she has dabbled in a love affair with costuming. She hopes you enjoy the most exciting and terrifying moment of her theater career and don't forget to follow your dreams, wherever they may lead.
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Violetta
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Violetta was born in the Bay Area, then moved to New Jersey. She then, of course, found her way back to Berkeley, where she was raised. Violetta loves Greece, and hopes to continue traveling there as she gets older. She hopes you like her short story.
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Zoe
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"Only selfless service can encourage a person to reach the higher state of humanity."
-Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Indian Spiritual Leader, b. 1926)
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