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The Day I Shot: A Personal Narrative Of My Life

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I can remember the day that my cousin Andrew got shot. Andrew wasn’t really my cousin. Andrew was my babysitter. When Andrew would babysit me he would always tell his friends to bring their siblings over for me to have someone to play with and company for him. Andrew was well known; everyone knew not to mess with him or get on his bad side because his family had a bad reputation, but Andrew was really a good guy. He had all A’s, wasn’t really a fighter, just an overall guy who lived the street life. He always told me that he never wanted to be in the streets and do the things he did for money, just to be successful and go to college. Andrew had a brother name Andre around my age and sister a little younger, so we were all close.
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Prior to this situation, I was moving to Charlotte, NC, the following day that this situation happened. But that’s when I got a phone call when I was in Charlotte that my cousin got shot I didn’t think it was true real. That phone call was the day that I lost myself and who I was as a person. I can remember it like it was yesterday when I got a phone call from Andrew’s fiancé and baby mama to be. When she called me, I knew that something was wrong as soon as she got on the phone. I thought the problem was with her because before I left New York Andrew asked her to marry him and we found out that she was pregnant. When she told me that she was healthy and the baby was okay, I didn’t think that she would say what she said to me. She told me that my cousin Andrew had been shot numerous times in his back and chest. I yelled, begging her to not be lying to me. She started crying, telling me that she doesn’t know how she is going to be without him, that she was going to kill herself and the baby just so that she can be with him. When this happened it really hurt me and a lot of our family. Who would ever think that Andrew’s best bud would be the worst enemy? I just knew that if I didn’t have a big mouth and I didn’t tell anyone he would still be here. All I thought about was the fact that it was my fault. I just knew that he would have been at my graduation, or would have …show more content…

When my cousin died, I was real hurt. This was a lesson learned for me. During this time I was acting up, my ninth grade through eleventh grade year. I would smoke, drink, and fist fight my mom. There was a lot going on, not only did my cousin die, but my step dad would beat on my mom. At this time of my life I thought I wasn’t going to get into college. I thought I would be locked up for fighting and etc. I was just a mess. But one day I was sitting crying to myself talking to my cousin Andrew and he told me it’s time to show your talent. Your talent is that fact that you are a smart girl that will be someone in life. I can truly say that Andrew is my idol, and I would do anything in this world to be the person that I deserve to be not only for me but for

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