Personal Narrative: My Grandfather's Death From Drunk Driving

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If there was any day I could re-live it’d be the day that my stepfather died from drunk driving. Maybe even the following days when my mother broke and became an alcoholic. If I could really could go back then I could have done something to help her and save him from the car crash.. But, I can only choose one day therefore I choose the day he died from drunk driving.

It was a little ways away from Christmas. Something was wrong with my father. He was drinking more than usual, At about midnight his friend came over. they were drinking a lot and decided it was a good idea to go racing with him down a dirt road. He got in the car and started racing. But, once over a hundred miles per hour he hit an embankment.

The car flipped and he was

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