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Personal Narrative : My Freedom

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My Freedom
Life is a mystery, one minute, things seem calm and peaceful, and the next, chaotic. In life, there will always be situations that occur randomly, and their severity are too random. Random was not the case for me receiving a car for my 16th Birthday. I had been waiting months for my birthday to arrive, for my car was in sight. Both my father Steven and my mother, Felicia, had made it very clear that I was to get a car for my birthday, but not necessarily the new 2016 blue Chevrolet Malibu I had hoped and begged for. This was not very pleasing, for I wanted a car of my liking and satisfaction. This car was the newest car to hit the market, with an incredibly low gas mileage, rearview camera, and its sleek exterior. On October …show more content…

Oh, was it a stressful day it was, for I was to take an exam for AP United States History, along with an essay for AP Literature and Composition, two of my most stressful classes, requiring much studying, reading, and writing. Due to studying for these classes, I was up until three that morning. Upon little sleep, I was successful in passing my exam and completing my essay with very high scores. After school was over I was to take some clothes over to the dry cleaners, which was directly across the street from my school parking lot on Main Street, which was an extremely hectic street during the time of which school ended (being from 2-5 p.m.). As I got into my car, I had the option of either exiting the parking lot to the east of the school, which would lead me to a traffic intersection by a local Dairy Queen, or to exit to the south exit of the parking lot which, if I did would lead me right into the parking lot of the dry cleaners and was also the busy street of much traffic. This was for sure the easiest choice for me, in which I chose to progress through the heavy traffic to my destination.
To continue, while exiting the school parking lot in my recently purchased car, I was in a viewpoint that did not allow for me to fully examine the traffic coming in my direction to cross the street. At one second, I seemed to have a clear pathway to cross, therefore, I took the chance I had to cross over to the dry cleaners. While I was crossing the street, it became

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