Personal Narrative: Scout And Jem's Diary

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I have been very fond of Scout and Jem for a while now, I’ve been wanting to play with them but I don’t like to leave my house. On Halloween night, I was sitting in my chair and I heard some scuffling going on outside. Immediately I rushed out and found a grown man attacking Scout and Jem. So I pulled him off the kids and killed him with his own knife in protection for the children. My first reaction was to then see if anyone was injured and I saw Jem lying on the ground with a mangled arm. Without even thinking about it I picked him up and brought him to his home.
I was standing in the corner of the room while Scout was telling her story about what had just happened. Then I was called out as Scout pointed at me and told me that I was

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