Hangover By Jennifer Pashley

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My favorite story was Hangover by Jennifer Pashley. The idea of a hangover is something that everyone at some point in your life gets to experience, maybe because you had too much drink the night before or too much of a stressful day or night and the next day you are probably going to feel all types of symptoms depending on the type of hangover you have.

A hangover is the other shoe. (Pashley, 2014,p.2) Is like the other side of the coin, most specifically the side you are not expecting when you flip a coin to make a decision, it can be life changing because you never know the consequences that can bring you because you never know when it’s going to happen. I just can say that hangover can be life changing for the better or the worse and

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