My Hero's Journey-Personal Narrative

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The autumn breeze was cool against his skin as Steve walked through the numerous gravestones at Arlington. The grave stones were a light grey that looked less grim in the bright sunshine than they would have had it been a grey and dreary day. That was good though, because Steve had been aiming for a day that was bright and as cloudless as possible. The day didn’t have to be gloomy just because he was here to visit the graves of several of his old friends. Old friends that had passed on and left him behind while he lay frozen. Not that Steve could bring himself to be angry.
They'd done what he was doing now and moved on as was expected. They’d all (almost all) lived long and happy lives after the war and Steve was simply glad that he was able to visit so many of them at a time instead of having to spend days traveling to each separate site. Not only that, but it meant that none of them had been left behind on a lonesome battlefield to rot.
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The big dog had a better idea of where to go than Steve did and he was more than happy to let the Pokémon lead the way. Eva, however, was trotting along at Steve heels only stopping every once in a while to shake the leaf pattern ribbon back into its proper place when one of the tail ends fell into her face. Washington was nowhere to be found, but Steve had a feeling that the Braviary was off seeing his brother and it was more than likely that he’d show up back at their motel room later that

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