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Slang words, for example (but definitely not limited to): ‘cuz’, ‘chillin’, ‘hangout’, ‘legit’, and ‘aint.’

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I hope you know you’ll always be my little sister. The one whose baby-walker I taped a ‘kick me’ sign onto. The one whose hair I always tied in pigtails and dressed in frilly dresses.

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As soon as you enter high school, you are immediately thrown into the “pre-college” world. Suddenly everything you do in these next four years will decide not only if you will graduate from high school, but also if you will go on to get into a “good” college.

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8. Being an Olympian can’t hurt either.

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2. Drugs.