Personal Narrative: The Johnson Shut-Ins

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Over summer I went with some friends to the Johnson Shut-ins in Missouri. It was the first time I went camping in years and it was one of the coolest trips I’ve ever been on. It started with the drive which was about two and a half hours through isolated roads which eventually got kind of creepy because we were in the middle of nowhere, every house had confederate flags posted, and we were running out of gas. We finally found the place and found our campground and we wanted to find out what the shut-ins were exactly. It was on the other side of the campground so we drove over and started walking through these trails wondering if it was really going to be all that, when all of a sudden we could just hear rushing water and it was loud. We got

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