Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Volunteering

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One day, I walked to my friends house. Her mom had just had a baby boy. Just by looking at her, I could tell she was exhausted. So I offered to babysit the baby, so she wouldn’t have to worry about when her baby's diaper needed to be changed, or when he needed to be fed. She said I didn’t have to, but she knew I had a baby brother. So she trusted me with him. When she fell asleep, my friend and I played with him, fed him and changed his diaper. The diaper changing part was the hardest. He kept moving and crying. So my friend and I wrote a song in the " Mary had a little lamb " lullaby. So we sung that to him every time he cried. My friend and I had fun, but we could tell why her mom was so exhausted. It was

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