Personal Narrative: My Summer Basketball Tournament In Orlando, Florida

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It was Christmas night and I had still not packed a single item of clothing into my suitcase. Instead, I was too excited about all of my new gifts I received and anxious about my KSA Holiday Basketball Tournament in Orlando, Florida. Finally, I returned home from all of my Christmas festivities and began to unpack all of my fresh clothing and repack all of the items into my suitcase. My house was like the mall on Black Friday, my parents and I were running around frantically trying to remember what was packed and what was not packed. After we were certain we had everything we needed for the week in Florida, we tried to get some sleep before we embarked on the ten hour van ride we had ahead of us.
After the exhausting ten hour van ride, I was

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