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The Guilty Of Integrity-Personal Narrative

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When I was a little girl, my father and I used to bond over long rides on country roads. During one of these trips, we ventured too far into unknown territory and became lost and boxed in by a narrow road with trees on one side and a fence on the other. By the time he managed to turn the car around, my dad saw that he must have pushed against the fence, which now hung back partly trampled. I remember telling him maybe we should just go; we where in the middle of nowhere, with nobody to have seen us. However, my father said we needed to go up to the house behind the fence and tell whoever lived there what had happened. I watched him explain what he'd done to the elderly man who answered the door, along with offering to fix the fence. Having just arrived in the country a year before, we did not have lots of money to spare, but my father had always been handy and clever. The man looked him in the eye for a second and then laughed, telling him the fence had been like that before we came around; that it was old and had been trampled on for years, but that no one had ever come by to apologize. …show more content…

These people are fair, and learn to give second chances, but they don't let anyone compromise their values. They are reliable in order to show those around them they respect their time, and they are diligent in their work because they know it represents them. A person with integrity will do the right thing when they're all alone, with no one else to say whether they did or not, for they do not go through life living by the whims of the world, but instead holding steadfast to their morals; content in the knowledge that in both easy and difficult times, they have been true to

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