Personal Narrative Essay: The Hunter

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One dark cold morning in my deer stand, my grandpa had just got there before dawn. We still had a little bit before it got daylight so he told me a story. It was a story about a deer that hunters have seen but it would always disappear in a blink in of an eye, before they could even life their gun up to shoot.
A few minutes later he got to the part about the deer and how it always disappears before anyone could ever get a shot off at it. He said it was the most massive buck any of these hunters had ever saw in their lives. He said one hunter said that he was sitting in his stand and he had just seen it walk out and when he seen it it just vanished.
Now the sun was starting to crawl out of the darkness and brighten up the day. About the

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