Personal Narrative Essay: The Influence Of Soccer

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We were playing soccer. The night felt different it felt almost sharp piercing you like a knife. As i now know looking back at this horrible time i almost knew something was off

Me and my friend who lives a couple houses down from me was playing soccer on the corner of the road dumb I know especially in the dark but that's beside the point. If you lived down my road you know why it was safer than most roads at 12:00 at night no one drives by i mean no one.As we played soccer the whole time I had a horrible pit in my stomach I felt it and it didn't feel right.we played soccer for a total of an hour until my dad came and picked me up my dad's request was for me to go straight to bed I was a little mad hearing this and I didn't feel tired I

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