Personal Narrative: New Madrid

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One day I was talking to my friend and we were in the middle of a conversation and he just left me on read so I felt a little worried. He always answer so, I started blowing up his phone and he still wasn’t replying, so I took matters into my own hands and called the military. It was the first thing that popped into my head, I was so worried. The military gets to my house I told them what was going on and what he looked like. We started on the hunt for him.
We were running through New Madrid looking for him and all of a sudden people start shooting at us. We had no idea what was going on so we took cover. New Madrid was getting destroyed. This missing person report just turned into a war! Bullets were flying everywhere, buildings were getting

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