Personal Narrative Analysis

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As I stood in an unfamiliar building full of unfamiliar faces, I choose to do the only thing that made me comfortable—be alone. On the nerve-racking first day of school, I had no intentions of being social. I went straight to my vacant first hour, even though class did not start for twenty minutes. In fact, for almost the whole year I continuted to brake the norm of socializing and headed straight to first hour when the bus dropped me off. I discovered it was beneficial to organize myself before the day started, or at least that’s what I told myself.

Moving to a new school was not difficult, leaving my old school was. Being without any friends widdled down my confidence to a microscopic level. My stubborness made me blind to new opportunities;

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