Personal Narrative: Interlaced Music In Schools

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I have always interlaced music with my memories, and this is common for most people I would say. For example, we sing songs on peoples’ birthdays to celebrate, and have Christmas music to make the season festive. Music is something personal and means something different to every person who listens to it. The song “I wanna get better” by the Bleachers reminds me of a particular moment with my friends during this past summer.

It was my friends Erin, Maddie, and myself during May of 2017. We were walking around Secor Park during the sweltering May 17th, the day before our high school graduation. We were just reminiscing about grade school days and how that felt like an eternity ago. We sat on those swings till the sun had almost gone down and

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