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The Choices We Make
J.R. Carpenter
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Our mothers spent their early childhoods in the conservative comfort and safe security of the fifties.
In the seventies, a new generation of children saw the results of those choices. When I was in grade school is seemed like every kid in my class had divorced parents. My parent’s marriage certainly did not survive. I have resented my mother’s choices at times as they resulted in an unstable upbringing for me. I was left to figure a lot of stuff out for myself: birth control, driver’s license, and university applications.
Twelve years later, I revel in my freedom to think, create, do, wear and say things that even women of my mother’s generation would not have dared. Sometimes I still crave the stability my mother rejected, knowing full well that if she had clung to the world she was raised in, my life would offer fewer choices. I am surrounded by possibilities. To choose among them is to move forward, if only in that to choose is to exercise power. Every choice leads to experience.

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