My Dunke: A Short Story

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THE TIME I TORE THE TISSUE IN MY LEFT KNEE
It was a hot summer in Lee’s Summit,MO. It was fun playing basketball that day. I was doing good. I was making free throws,three pointers,and layups. It was a 8 foot goal I was playing on. I thought I could fly up into the air and slam the ball into the net. Well I was super wrong. I ran up to the goal, jumped WAM! The ball hit the rim point blank. I fell hard and smacked my left knee on the ground. My eyes filled up with rain, and my eyes precipitated.

My friend was with me. He yelled”Do you want me to get your mom?” I said something stupid,”NO”. I tried to walk home on own. When I was walking home my knee buckled and my walking stopped. When my knee buckled it’s not that I was in pain it was that

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