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The Day That Changed My Perspective Of Life

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The day that changed my perspective of life for the better through the challenges faced by others close to me. It was the very beginning of summer vacation and I attended a sleepover with six of my closest friends to celebrate a birthday. As with all the previous sleepovers I had attended we played games, ate way too much food, and gossiped about boys and school. We decided that we would try to pull an all-nighter, but had failed at that attempt. When we woke the next morning I was torn away from my group of friends by my cell phone going off. I normally would have ignored the phone call, but when I saw that the ID said my mother was on the other end, I knew it was in my best interest to answer the phone. A few weeks previously I had ignored a phone call from my mother like most teenagers would and I had received a speech about the importance of not ignoring one 's parents. I picked up my purple Motorola flip phone and immediately heard my mother sobbing on the other end of the line. Hundreds of thoughts ran through my head. Did something happen to my father? My sister? My grandmother? After what seemed like hours my mother 's sobbing subsided and she finally began to speak to me. She had told me that my cousin Samantha, who was more like a best friend, had been in a motor vehicle accident the night before and the doctors were not positive that she would make it through the day. My cousin was just 18 years old and had her entire life ahead of her and now it could all be

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