Personal Narrative: The Henry Family

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One normal day during the summer, turned into a bad day for the Henry family...well, mainly Carter and I but still, the Henry family. I was folding clothes and Carter was on his phone, normal day right, but then it took a turn for the worst. By the way, I’m Serena and I have three older brothers, Hunter, 20, Keaton, 17, and Carter, 15...my favorite...not. My parents are Brian and Sandy Henry and we have 1 pet, a dog named Stella the Yorkshire Terrier. So as you can imagine, she’s small so she’s an inside dog. So on that day, like I said, Carter was on his phone, I was folding clothes, Keaton was downstairs playing PS4, and Hunter was at his house in Lincoln, and my parents were at work. So, we were sitting there and then it just started downpouring

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