Personal Narrative: My Trip To South Carolina, New York

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I did a lot of things on the trip that I enjoyed. I visited three states South Carolina, New Jersey, and New Jork. I liked every single state each of them have something special. South Carolina was full of nature, I visit many parks, lakes, and we went shoping. New jersey was a lot diferent it was big and full of store, but I also liked it. New York was a whole different thing it was awesome.I enjoyed traveling in the subway. I visited Times Square, the liberty statue, and even had the oppotunity to saw Mr.President Obama from far, but I saw him it was an awesome day.

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