Reflective Essay: When We Meet At Crooked Forest

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As we kept running Xavier stopped and made an announcement. We should split up to get into groups of 10 when the sun goes down, we all meet at Crooked Forest.
“when do we know where their?” an old man shouted. “You will know you’re there when the trees start to curve.” “I thought we were supposed to stay together.” screamed Carolina. I was scared I didn’t know where I was, and the way the forest look with dark shadows moving and creepy sound made it a lot worse. I could hear all these sounds and none that I liked. “You will be ok, you’re not gonna be alone, you’re gonna be in groups just stay calm.” As we all spread apart from each other I became to panic, I didn’t know where I was at and if the people I was with knew the way
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5 o 'clock hit everybody marched past what we called home for the last couples of year, I felt myself starting to cry the thought of leaving this place behind breaks my heart and knowing where leaving some of are people behind to fight for our rights and stop hiding made them worried. The now elderly people prayed for us to return with good news and some cried for us to leave but if we don’t fight for our rights who will. They don’t care about us or what we do, they don’t even care if we were alright were tired of hiding from the things that belongs to us. When we arrived the air felt heavy, something in the air or in the way this place looks made my stomach turn. As we marched up to Justin we saw how the people ran into their homes and locked the doors. the place looked deserted, but everybody knew what was happening. They knew who we were and what we wanted. As we marched and more people started to see us they start to greet us and as we were in plain sight the people from the graveyard comes running up to us and a lady says thank you for coming back its been hell the last couple of years but i know now that there’s still hope in our

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