Personal Narrative: Living With A Traumatic Brain Injury

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Living with a traumatic brain injury is the worst thing that ever happened to me.
When I was Eight years old I cracked my skull at my elementary school, it all happened when I was playing tag with my best friend Blanca. I went on the other side of the school and hid behind a bench, on a bar, above a window well. In second grade you're not smart enough to know that those bars are there for a reason… you just see them and go to them without even thinking. I, unfortunately, sat on the bar, two seconds later I ruined my life. I fell back and hit my head on the cement, knocking myself out. When I woke up I couldn't remember anything, the school called my mom and told her I hit my head and had just a little headache. My mom was at work so she

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