Personal Narrative-Short Story

My life started with my long and hard birth on July 14, 1993. I came into the world with a large scream and was immediately placed into some sort of category. The doctors and nurses took a quick look at me, and pronounced me as a girl. This social label of being a girl was now my gender, which is something I had no say in. Every since that very moment in time where my parents were told I was a girl, I have been treated according to my gender. This meant that my parents automatically dressed me in pink, bought me dollhouses and kitchen sets and threw me Barbie themed birthday parties. Since I was surrounded my whole entire life by these things, it was almost like second nature to think and act the way that I did and still do. My

to my feet, get out of here. This was all too much for me. I quickly pushed

I put my foot on a chair and out wiped my hands on the side of my thigh. Then I saw him walking up the far end of the street.

opened the car that my family and I had to enter. We got in one by one and by the end of it there

Have you ever felt so nervous in your life that your mind ached with anxiety. It was the final race in my seventh grade track season, but little did I know my anxiety became the least of my worries.

The hour and a half was up. My mom and brother were going to the front doors, when she got a call from my dad.

closed the door behind myself. I looked up at the wall and saw a picture of my mother,

to pick up the phone and call Vince. He had already called him twice in the first four days

So when my parents left, I poured myself and Christine a drink and made sure to slip

As I was down starting to fix the wheels, a car came out of nowhere but I didn’t think much of it at the time ‘cause I just wanted to get those wheels back on the wagon and go home. I was

I was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina in 1981. I went to high school at Northern Nash Senior High and graduated in May 1999. I went to college for a year, then I joined the United States Army on August 1, 2000 as a 31U which is a Signal Support Systems Specialist who specializes in tactical communications and data networks. On March 26, 2003 I had the honor of donating bone marrow to a little girl with acute leukemia. Then on April 29, 2003 deployed to Baghdad, Iraq for fifteen months in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In 2004 I had the opportunity to get stationed in the Republic of South Korea where I had a two year tour serving my country. While there I enjoyed traveling around the country and experiencing their wonderful culture. I also met my wife and we had our daughter.

the bike and was about to head back to my house when my heart suddenly

We had been driving for the past 2 days, and it was so late into the night. My mother and I slept off in the back seats, and the only

his pram and took him to the park, making sure that all the doors were

I remember myself sitting near a little block with letters and my mother teaching me the name of each of them. She starts to sing me a song to help me to memorize the alphabet. It is so funny singing the ABC song. At that instant, the door opens, and my father enters the room. That is the first thing carved in my memory, and each time when I think about it, I conclude that we are the best family in the world.