Chicago Glass Door

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Do you want to have an injury on a trip with your family? That's what happens when you think something is a door, but really it is glass. One day we went to a chocolate factory in Chicago to look at how they make the chocolate. I see a door like shape so I take off running at it and right and the last second I realized it was glass. I hit the glass so hard that my head was as enormous as a balloon when I hit it head on. Have you ever ran into something and got a bruise from it?
We went to Chicago to see a famous chocolate factory over the weekend. The day after we get there we wake up early and take a day to look around in Chicago before we go to the chocolate factory. When we get there the first thing I do is look at all of the stuff and
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“ I said lets go it hurt”.
“Sarah said I am a retard and also Billy did”. When I get to the hospital, I smell a bad batch of soup and bread in the oven.
“My Dad said I might have a concussion or cut open my head from the glass”. I Could taste the apples in the peanut butter. I could hear the people in the other room screaming in pain.
“ I could see the old people in their rooms when I was on the stretcher yelling in pain.
“My friend said that I looked like i was in a car crash when that happened or that I hit my head hard on the dash”. learning how not to think something is a door, but really it is glass. I used to always run into stuff and never used to pay attention and i would always get hurt and have to go to the doctor's office. when I just ran into class in Chicago a couple of days ago I learned not to run on something that fast and not slow down and just keep going. I am still facing the fear of that could happen again to me and it could have been way worse than what happened on our Chicago Trip. I had to stop thinking something was another thing and stop running into stuff anymore because I don't want to get a concussion or get brain trauma. You guys should never run toward something you don't know is

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