It’s called “Grace”. I want to prove to myself that I can actually finish a long piece of writing, even at 17.
Avaleigh_Marissa's Life List
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1. Get a literary agent
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2. Make everything I do from now on steps in pursuit of my dream: becoming a writer. A screenwriter, a novelist, a journalist.
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3. Write for "The Colbert Report"
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4. Sleep at the Shakespeare and Co. bookstore in Paris
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5. become a famous author
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6. Make book of all gmail chats and mails between O. and I
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7. Be someone's protegee
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8. win a prestigious literary award
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9. work in a bookstore
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10. find out the mystery of crop circles
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11. Write a movie script
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12. join a secret society
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13. do past life regression
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14. submit a story or poem to chicken soup books
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15. mail Paul Auster
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16. stop drinking soda
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17. Go to "Tarantino's" in Berlin
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18. Live like i'm dying. Because I am dying. We all are.
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19. Have a literary mentor
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20. be proposed to
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21. try out for cheerleading
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22. Write for Rolling Stone
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23. Write to a Death row prisoner
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24. Become a freelance journalist/article writer
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25. win the green card lottery
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26. Buy a surprise box. Never open it and let what is inside it be a mystery forever .
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27. Go a week with no sugar
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28. Start a secular club at my university
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29. do a lot of prospecting for work, friends, boys
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30. graduate from the Second City writing program
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31. Live in Bntn house senior year
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32. publish copyright research in journal
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33. be a prolific atheist activist
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34. get married
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35. learn to invest
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36. look back at each week to determine what i achieved in terms of long-term goals, activism, writing, prospecting new people, love, health
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37. Speak French fluently
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38. write a nonfiction blockbuster
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39. attend the rally for reason
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40. Be a popular blogger
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41. Get into a free grad school
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42. get dom
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43. executive girlfriend
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I just turned 17, but this makes me feel better than anything else I could have gotten for the money I’m sending her.

