The Battle Of Paintball-Personal Narrative

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Have you ever faced our fears well, I have. I arrived in the maze of bushes and trees and right as soon as we started Paintballs bolted past my head going as fast as a bullet, I ran for cover and found a wooden wall.I saw the people around us and had good shots, but it was my very first time so I could not shoot because I was afraid, but it wasn’t just me there my best friend Owen was also with me.THe paintballs broke on the wood and you could hear a splat we were behind the wall, but Owen had been before so he just shot without ease! The game we were playing was elimination Paintball.In the game my teammates got out very quickly looking for the flag we were down to six players.
I took cover for the speeding paint balls and soon got

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