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e “red onion” phase, halfway between tomatohood and enough, kids begin inventing ways to escape girl can choose not to eat or she can pretend that she doesn39。t guy can choose to imitate someone famous or he can pretend that he hates kids who usually gets the right answers at school find ways to seem like they always get the right answers。and the kids who rarely get the right answers find ways to show that they don39。t is the skin of the onion by the beginning of high school, the mature onion has time, its skin grows onions even realize that they are onions, but are hesitant to peel for fear of losing their I39。ll catch myself onionizing, especially if something really bothers my freshman year of high school, I was scared that I wouldn39。t make any friends so I convinced myself that I was the loner months I refused to meet anybody because I had already decided that we wouldn39。t get felt awful to finally confront my I didn39。t avoid doing knew it was going to leave a bruise on me, and that was fine because it was better than covering up my once I opened up,I had an easier time meeting people than I would have ever 39。s the way tomatoes never try to hide who we are or how we , where one learns to question the status quo, seems like it would be the perfect place for a I also recognize that the ing time will be a will be confronting new ideas, new situations, and new fears, and will have to assimilate these experiences without changing the fabric of my will have to keep my vision of the world fresh and open, and not succumb to the hardening of established ideas, or onionizing, that I see occurring around me all the the end, it is possible that tomatoes and onions do have something in mon: a fort in the usual way of doing things, a resistance towards next four years will be a shock for me, as I explore new intellectual realms and my mind continues to although I will never stop being a tomato, I hope that college will at least help me to ripen a bit.