Personal Narrative: Sand Cove

In the first few weeks of my father’s senior year in high school he was called into the principal’s office and he was told, “Mr. Bragdon, if you don’t start showing up for school I am going to expel you.” See at the time, dad’s single mother of four was struggling to pay the bills, which meant he needed to do whatever he could to supply the family with an additional income. So he went lobstering. In response to the principal, the very next day dad walked into his office and set down on his desk a stack of books and his check from that week. He then looked at the principal and said “Sir, I believe I just made more in one week than you will in the next two months. I’m not coming back”. And he didn’t. At least not until I starting playing basketball …show more content…
Because of those walk I know the exact location of every blackberry patch, apple tree, and seaglass beach in the entire town of Winter Harbor. What I remember bes about those walks, however, is very special place called Sand Cove. See Sand Cove in a sense is magical, because regardless of the temperature in the summertime you are guaranteed to get a cool southwest breeze in that spot every afternoon. That cool breeze, paired with the sweet, soft smell of the beach roses that line the shore, and the saltiness of the seaweed that is what I think of when I think of home. Now, as an adult I regularly run a route around Sand Cove, and thought I still love it, this place is not the …show more content…
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