American Patriots Narrative

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Here I (Steven Hankins) am, in middle of the school day walking through the brick cafeteria. Accepting an award on American patriots for 1st place. How did this happen?, I questioned myself. I never even tried. There I was accepting the award. But this is where the whole thing started, on one peculiar 5th grade day at Wilcox Elementary (right across the park from Hawthorne).

One day, we were instructed to write about American patriots. Not sure what to do; I chose one that we read a 3 page story about. (Insert his name here I don’t remember). I wrote a 1 ½ page essay that took about 3 days. I thought about it for a while and wrote about him. My story was turned in about a week later not thinking about how it looked or sounded to the

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