Personal Narrative Essay

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1. The guy walking down the street in the brown T-shirt, wiping the sweat from his face with a paper towel

2. The ant who traveled all the way up to the 8th floor just to crawl around on my bathroom tiles

3. The pair of green and yellow striped shoes, lying untied on the sidewalk

4. The way Corinne says “don’t you hate that?” and I have to say “yeah,” even though I don’t have that

5. The baby who’s crying “Ice cream!” because she sees the “berry sweet frozen yogurt” sign, and her dad who looks at me and says “damn signs,” while continuing to roll her away in the stroller

6. $1.00 American Spirits, but only if you have the coupon

7. The heart-shaped dog bowl chained to the door of the Sip N Go Juicery

8. The rolled up newspaper tied
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The brown bottle that says Stumptown cold brew coffee, sitting on the windowsill next to a crumpled piece of mail.

10. The receipt laying on the ground, Retain this receipt for your records in case of dispute

11. The handcuffs locked around the green, metal bike rack.

12. The red blush that Corinne smears around her green eyes; they remind me of tomatoes

13. The man on the other side of the window selling Wawa gift cards; he never looks back at me

14. The light turns green and the white Ten Pennies: Florist & Decorations van drives away so fast I almost do not have time to copy down the whole name

15. The little, black dog being choked by its leash, as it stretches its neck just to sniff the cracks in the concrete, while the leash-holder looks at her phone

16. The Terra Dining Hall smells like cherry blossom & ginseng when a girl with light orange hair walks by, when she’s gone it smells like burnt cheese again

17. The orange and white, Tabby cat that sits on the plastic, storage-box lid, tapped to the frame of the coffee table, where the glass used to be he uses his nose to open up the maroon curtain and look outside

18. The front of the Marlboro cigarette box that someone has ripped off, wrote eat shit on, and hung next to the dorm room

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