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Personal Narrative Essay : A Short Story

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“Welcome to Kentucky!” My father beams from the front seat as we pull into a large driveway, “Now darlin’ your aunt Margaret has been waiting’ all day for your arrival!” I swing my legs out of the car and feel the sticky warmth surround my parched legs like a tissue engulfed in snot. “Here you go Eliza!” my mother speaks as she struggles to situate my wheelchair. As I get comfortable in my chair I take my first glance at the house I’ll be staying at for the next two months. A baronial mansion looms over me, the tips of the turret’s pierce through the milky clouds and the windows reflect my fear of entering. I wheel myself around to find my parents exchanging peculiar looks.
“Well hon, this is where we say goodbye!” My mother utters as she and my father grip me tight but release oddly quick.
“Bye mama, bye papa have fun at the convention, see you at the end of summer!” I watch them settle back in the car then drive away promptly. Hesitantly, I wheel myself closer and closer to the monstrous door of the cavernous threshold. I finally get the courage to knock on the solid maple doors but then they suddenly burst open sending a gush of wind through my stringy hair. “Eliza!” A strange looking woman shrilled. Her joyous tone was so high-pitched a glass could crack. The odd woman eyed me down like a lion seizing up its prey. “Hello Aunt Margaret, thank you for letting me stay in your home this summer!”
“Well of course Eliza and it surely is nice to meet you.”
Margaret smells

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