Narrative Essay On The Dark Raven

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The Dark Raven – (Jason Helmsman)
We’d been patrolling San Diego for Some time our chapter was located in downtown. I felt there was a need for us if I didn’t I wouldn’t have wasted my time. I’d been interviewed on television and spoke to youth summer camps and grade school kids. I never revealed my true identity for any of these appearances and that did peek people’s curiosity a little, maybe. But no one ever really went out of their way to find out who we were. I suppose even though I believed in our “super hero” work it was just kind of novelty that might get a blurb on the 6oclock news or a small story about us in the paper that’s on page six. Usually we’d go down town at about ten on weekends or on a party holiday and just watch out for people we’re behaving like gentlemen. Sometimes we’d have to tell young ladies to clean up their acts but the over whelming majority of the time it would be young men. We’d break up fights try to assist law enforcement and make sure young women who are intoxicated don’t get
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I remember growing up we took him in because his Mom would kick him out of the house when dad was at work so in the summer and some weekends you’d just see him on his porch sitting there all alone with a packet of saltines his mother had given him. No water though she figured he could just use the hose. That’s why even though he was a scary kid I was guilted into befriending him. So most days he just hung out at our house. We played in our super hero fantasy land we both had the same names we use today Vigilant Justice and The Dark RaveN. He loved the escape of this make believe game he craved it was addicted to escaping. He naturally bigger faster and stronger than all of the other kids. As soon as we hit Junior High School He became a bully and a got into drugs. At that point I kept my distance and after a while he just became another face in the hall at

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