Wednesday, November 21, 2007

1B- Neighbour Profile (Brienne 300w)

Can't Please All of Them
By Jesse Ferguson

“Who cares about that kid?” Brienne Torley retorted rhetorically, speaking after-the-fact about the student who downplayed her story at birth.

Upon delivery, Brienne’s umbilical cord came wrapped awkwardly around her throat, nearly suffocating her before she took one gasp of fresh air, shocking everyone in the Mississauga delivery room, notably the doctors attempting to deliver her.

Her story did not impress this student. It is provocative enough for most, surely.

As he obliviously carried on obnoxiously, she probably wanted to reach over and deliver a backhand to him as he sat directly beside her, but instead of reacting harshly, she sat quietly beside him, not saying a word.

Apparently, she has utmost poise. Her style is contemporary and individualistic, but not so much so that it borders strange. She is a pretty girl, and uses that to rake in tips at Applebee’s restaurant in Cambridge, though her personality comes foremost ahead of looks. She seems of an intellectual breed, but she is a contemporary girl, who seems very multidimensional, making a short profile impossible.

This has not been Brienne’s only brush with death. She has had three experiences that she has narrowly escaped. “I firmly believe that I am here for a reason, that I have a purpose in life.”

This young lady with perspective goes to school at Laurier Brantford with the hopes of one day journalizing. She lives in Brantford during the school-year, but typically resides in Cambridge, Ontario.

(I imagine a cartoon at the bottom of the article, again in the delivery room, with every doctor and nurse freaking out, and the male student up front in the picture with the utmost nonchalant-ness saying, “Seen it a hundred times. Seen it all before, all too often”)

-Jesse Ferguson

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