Personal Narrative On Religion

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My dad and my mom were in church listening to the sermon, and he leaned over and complained to my mom that he had been noticing some very strange symptoms. He felt nauseous, his jaw felt more forward, his vision felt blurry, and many other oddities. My mom said he might want to go to a doctor but it could just be how he slept the night before. The man in front of them was Hunter Dyer, one of the leading neurosurgeons in the country. He overheard part of the conversation about the symptoms that my dad was experiencing. While he didn’t immediately say anything, he asked a mutual friend for my dad’s phone number and called him the next day. Dr. Dyer said that it was incredibly unlikely, but there was a chance the symptoms that my dad had explained to my mom were the product of a tumor in his pituitary gland. My dad was understandably concerned and went into the doctor the next day to get a brain scan and an exam to determine if a tumor was present. The scan came up, and the doctor caught his breath. The scan showed a tumor that was bigger than anyone had predicted. They immediately rushed him into surgery and it went great. In fact, apart from an
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Madlax had just scored and the ref was about to whistle the start of the ensuing faceoff. Wilson was crouched, ready to explode to clamp the ball. To the surprise of all of us, he won the faceoff cleanly. It wasn’t that we thought he was bad, just that the kid he was against is committed to Maryland. In fact, coming into the game we were major underdogs. Madlax National has five kids already committed to play college lacrosse, and we only have one kid who even has an offer. After Wilson won the faceoff he passed it to Graham, who did a lefty split dodge and finished on the crease for a goal. The game was tied. Twelve seconds left. Wilson lined up for another faceoff, but this time his clamp was not clean and the resulting scrum lasted out the

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