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Personal Narrative: I Never Dumbed My Hair

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Those women actually combed my hair. With that stupid comb that I want, no need, to break into pieces. It hurt. Not enough for me to want needles again. No pain could ever come close to that. But those women did hold me down. Kept me right in place in the tub with water running down my scalp and hair pulled out. Bet that there's still pieces of white hair all over the floor from when I tried to get out because the comb got stuck. I wish they'd just let me sleep and eat like in my old cell. Why do they even care about keeping up with hygiene? In all the other cells they either bathed once a week or whenever everyone else in the cell agreed that they smelled. I didn't want any riot, so I bathed once a week. Never combed my hair though. Just …show more content…

The Drones came by with breakfast a while ago. I expected to get shoved, since I'm sitting right next to the doors instead of my usual corner, and grab whatever was left. That didn't happen. No, it was a sickening sight. Not just the cubes of food that smell like piss and taste like I took a bite out of this bunk, no, the way these people reacted to it. Instead of crowding around, one of the women with real large rabbit ears took the entire tray and another thanked the Drones. Thanks as if we are grateful for this life. Right, being on the streets and sleeping in alleys is terrible, but comparing it to this it isn't much of a challenge to choose. I didn't want to move when the ear woman called everyone to her bunk, but my stomach lurched around as if it needed to eat. I mean, I don't feel like starving myself. Maybe later, …show more content…

Not the one with the scales. He had bright, red skin and green hair. He plopped another cube in my hand and laughed when I stared at him. Yeah, the stuff is disgusting, but the only time someone gave up part of their food was in my first cell. Only after I took it that time the man told me he was afraid it would be poisoned. Wasn't too keen on what this man was planning, but he only laughed some more and introduced himself. Apple. A stupid nickname. Then he told me it'd been a while since they had a kid in their cell and looked real sad before walking off. Made sure to poke the cube, just in case. Maybe they're all getting drugged to act this docile. That'd make more sense than them actually following the Drones. But by being here haven't we all already done that? No war broke out between the lower class and the government. Isn't history filled with those kinds of rebellions? Especially when an alien race come and start rounding us up? Everyone must've felt tired from the Virus. Look like freaks and monsters with no money or homes

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