Personal Narrative: The Trampoline

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This warm Friday afternoon, I was outside with my brother and my brother and I were flipping on the trampoline. My brother “JJ” told me to do a backflip and I said,” I can’t do a backflip but I will try” so when I got ready to flip I was shaking and screaming in my head because I was scared that I was going to break a bone or fly off the trampoline. JJ went in the house five minutes later and said, “If you don’t flip you not coming back on the house” and I said, “I have to go in the house so that I can practice on the bed”. So, when I stepped in the house I got some water and went in my room and was flipping and I tried flipping on the bed and all you heard was a big “BOOM”, so my mother called me and my brother and asked what were we

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