Personal Narrative: I Am A Toughest Girl

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Four years ago I was placed on a lacrosse team with fifteen other small, young girls. I had never meet any of the other players who I stood by that first day of a new team. I came into that season with an open-mind about learning new names and improving my skills for my favorite game, but, never did I imagine that I would meet someone who would change my life entirely. Never did I expect that the shortest girl, with bangs and nerdy glasses, would become my best friend. Never did I expect that the girl who joined me for frozen yogurt one day would inspire me to be the best I can be. Never did I expect that this girl would help to make me the person I am today.
Entering my last year of middle school, I often felt sad and excluded from friends.
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We became perfect partners for chaotic history debates, whether we were yelling across the room to another group of arguers or across the table to our other group partner. Renee became someone who was my closest friend. She was someone who I could share anything with, and most importantly, we put the normal middle school judgements behind us. When we were together we never talked behind the back of others, instead we looked at the positive aspects. Our conversations often consisted of yelling over celebrities, boys who we wanted to talk to but our shyness overcame us, friendships, laughs, medicine, grades, or anything that came to mind. Renee and I spent science classes working on the subject we both loved while we took videos of ourselves laughing about funny jokes, or my obsession with Harry Potter. Some of the best memories we share grew within those first few months and weeks we got to know each other, and it never stopped …show more content…
I have learned so much from her. The future years I will have with her surely will be amazing, filled with laughs and dances to Justin Bieber. We will always be the two girls people look at and say “they are definitely best friends”. The two girls who laugh until they cry, and motivate each other as much as possible. Renee has made me a kinder, more spirited, smarter person. I am never going to forget how much that means to me, and how happy she makes me. She made me smile everyday in a miserable year. We may not have attended high school together but we continue to grow up together as if we did. Everyone should aspire to be a person like Renee, I know that I definitely

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