Personal Narrative: Hurtful Jellyfish

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Hurtful Jellyfish

One summer I was on vacation with my family and we went to Virginia because my cousin and my sister used to go to school down there. So we are at my cousin’s house and she has a beach a couple blocks from her house. So one day we all went to the beach and had fun for a little bit. I would say we went around 3:30 pm. About the first hour we are there it’s nice and calm and everything and the next thing you know a family is telling my Aunt’s and my mom about how they see jellyfish in the water. So knowing me i had to go see if it was real or not. So I go see if there are jellyfish in the water and so i walk into the water and still do not see any signs of jellyfish and so a few moments later my sister screams and tells me not to move because there was a
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At this point in like kind of laying down in the water on my stomach but my hands are down. So anyways everybody is all nervous and they begin to panic; so I do the same and do not know what to do, so I move the slightest bit, like I barely moved and then it just felt like I just got 4 teeth pulled out at the same time. I have never been in so much pain, it felt like I died and came back to life. So as all that happens, I come back to my senses and realize that there are about 5-7 more jellyfish around me, and I’m looking very confused and wondering why this had to happen to me. I swear to you it felt like I’ve been electrocuted twice in the matter of 2 seconds, and then I shed a baby tear because it hurt so bad. While I got stung by that jellyfish, I had a lot of time to think about how I will never ever get back in the ocean because you

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