Personal Narrative Essay On Mt. Everest

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It was a cold winter night; the moon had emerged from its cave gleaming out. I had just got off the bumpiest and jolty ride that I had ever been on. I slowly walked to my dorm with a sluggish movement as my head was aching and stomach was swirling. I trotted on, when I got there I slowly opened the door so subtly you couldn’t hear a creak. I dived on my bed and fell in the deepest sleep that I dreamed of grasping the water while rather large dolphins plopped out of the sea to climbing the top of Mount Everest and claiming the top to myself.

The dreaded morning came I had to do my presentation for start of the semester. The wind blew one way to another I slowly strolled to the hall and right out nowhere a short young man bumped me into the

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