Personal Narrative: Proofreading Time Into My Writing

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I have a weird infatuation for sneakers I have at least 50 in my house just for me to wear. My closet is overwhelmed by shoe boxes. There is a shelf in my closet that has five shoe boxes across and five boxes stacked high. I spend hours a day just looking at shoes even if I have no intention to buy them I just love to look at them. My biggest struggles in English come from my lack of skill in writing. That lack of skill comes from my lacking in understanding my grammatical mistakes rushing the writing and not proofreading carefully. The lack of effort I put into proofreading my work is something I wish to change this year. I also want to put more time into my writing procrastination in starting my writing has been the thing that has affected

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