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This was an essay I was asked to write for Honors College English, I was asked to write about my greatest fear. A prompt derived from the book 1984 by George Orwell, and this is what I submitted. I hope you enjoy.

The Mirror Image of a Shattered Love

As I stand amongst the crowd of jeering and cheering, sometimes over enthusiastic fans, being tossed about in a sea of limbs and seemingly endless energy, I can't help but feel like a stranger, an inferior or superior life form stranded on a mystical planet.