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My First Memory- Personal Narrative Essay

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My First Memory- Personal Narrative I’ve had many memories during my lifetime, many good, and some bad. My very first memory takes me back to my very first house, a substantial s0mie- detached house situated in the heart of Hartford. I was probably about six years old and so was my sixth Christmas. I have a vivid memory of waking up very early in the morning, staggering into my parents’ bedroom and literally dragging them out of their bed. I then progressed onto forcing them to follow me down the stairs, and as I reached the bottom, I just stood there, gazing at the extravagant …show more content…

For the best part of ten minutes I practised trying to break my speed record but when I approached a tight corner, I had to slam on my breaks, Unfortunately when I did this, I managed to ride over a frozen over puddle and lost my grip of the handle bars. I went flying off the bike into a near by neighbour’s bush and the bike collided with an adjacent tree. With a sudden feeling of anxiety, I raced over to the bike only to realise that it was still intact. I was so grateful! I got back onto the bike and was about to head back to my house when my heart suddenly plummeted. The milometer was smashed, completely ruined, beyond repair, I was heartbroken. Like I said earlier, the memories of my childhood aren’t all tales of heartbreak. For example one very fond memory of mine takes me back to my eighth birthday where I was beginning to get more mature and so needed a ‘big boys’ present. It was the night of March 25th, and I couldn’t control my excitement as I settled down into my immense double bed and prepared to watch ‘Lars the Polar Bear’ which I had got as a stocking filler the previous Christmas. As you may know, March 25th was a Saturday and that meant that a certain young boy had had a late night on Friday and had also spent the majority of the day terrorising ‘Captain Coconuts’. This meant that this certain young boy, namely me, was shattered to say

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