Let Me Tell You About My Best Friend and Me

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“Why is that girl wearing a huge dress to picture day?” were Cassandra’s thoughts when she first saw me in sixth grade. A couple weeks later, we were assigned to be in a group project for our history class; that is how I met my best friend. This upcoming September, we are celebrating our ten year “Friend-iversary” and over these past ten years, there are ways in which Cassandra are extremely similar and there are ways in which we are extremely different. First of all, Cassandra and I are very lazy when it comes to cleaning. We had an ongoing battle with our parents about keeping our rooms clean. When we thought about why we were so lazy, we realized who was to blame: our parents. She was the youngest of four children in her family and she was spoiled. Her mother did everything for her. I was not spoiled but when I was young, my mother cleaned up for my younger brother and me, as did my dad. When my mother thought it was finally time for us to have responsibilities in middle school, my brother and I would ask our dad for help and he would do it for us. Had our parents required Cassandra and I to be responsible and do our chores when we were younger, we would not be as lazy as we are now. Secondly, Cassandra and I are very selective when it comes to food. Our menu consists of the following: pizza (easy on the sauce for me), burgers (vegetable free), and most importantly, chicken tenders. Like the previous similarity, our parents are also to blame for our limited menu. Our parents did not force us to eat our vegetables. Once they saw that we were not going to eat what was on our plate, they would make us something else. After a while, they started cooking two different dishes: one for the family and one for us. Since they stopped encouraging us to try new food, we did not try to broaden our menu on our own. Now I am trying new foods on my own to make

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