Personal Narrative: Jet-Around-The-World Sweepstakes

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Wow! “I won the Grand Prize in the Jet-Around-The-World Sweepstakes,” I said!
The rules to the Jet-Around-The-World Sweepstakes is where u get to pick any place in the world, get to fly there for free , stay there 3 days, and take one person. All for free!!!

So i was walking home, i was so exited to tell my friends! I was still thinking who i should take tho, i really wish i could take all of them….then i was at my front door. Man i must of been day dreaming the whole time i was walking. So i walked in and went to my room and the first person i called was Jakobie, “Guess what,” I yelled. She asked,”What”? I answered,”I won the prize money and i get to take who i want, just one person tho, ill get back to you once i figure it out.” So

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