Coming Of Age-Personal Narrative

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Coming of age I laid their wiggling like a worm in the dirt. Then i just woke up on air mattress in my grandparents house. I stood up looking out the windows checking for the sun but the their was, was the moon lighting up their yard. I stumbled out of the room carefully stepping over my brother, who was snoring louder than an air horn. I opened the sliding door to the living room and my grandparents were their to meet me. I walked over to the clock to see what time it was, the clock read 6:10am. I stood there wondering why they were up. Then it all clicked in my head I had forgot it was my birthday. I slowly walked over to where they had been sitting. They greeted me and went back to reading their newspapers. I walked over to the table that had boxes all over it. My grandma said I had to wait for my parents to wake up before I could open and gifts. Later that day about 10 o’clock. Everyone had woken up and was moving around. I sat them all down so I could open my gifts. I got a laptop, a hat, a hoodie and other things. Later that day about 3 o’clock I started to put my makeup on to …show more content…
We opened about 7 o’clock as we started I had to warm up before I started chasing people in the parking lot, it will take me like 3 group to warm up the after that if a group was really scared of clowns and ran though our room then I would run right behind them and chase them. As the night went my dad started talking to me he explained that he was tired of being the clown and wanted to do something different next year and that I would take his place as the head clown. This might seem petty but my dad has been working their for 16 years and for ten of those years he had been the head clown. And for him to have given me the responsibility was huge because that was the first year I was aloud to leave my room and interact with people. As the night slowly died more and more people were coming through

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