Personal Narrative: Pokemon Go

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If you were an American over the summer of 2016 you most likely heard of Pokemon GO. I remember being excited for it since September 2015. And when I was on Santa Monica Pier on July 6th when the game came out I couldn't wait to play it. I downloaded it and I learned that night that the game had over 10 million downloads in its first day on the app store. And everyone was hunting for one objective that summer, one goal, to catch them all. I started right then and there and I knew one day I was going to catch them all. I have been a Pokemon fan since I was a little kid, it was my first video game. So this game was already a big deal to me. We were just walking off the pier, shopping for sunglasses, when my friend texted me saying that the game

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