Personal Narrative Essay: Saving Someone's Life

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What is love and how exactly would you define it? Most people would define it as something cliché as a strong feeling towards someone else, like you two are connected. When people are in love, metaphorically they might define their feeling as “a dream come true” or that feeling when someone has saved their life. However, to some people, metaphors might not just be metaphors; it might be something very real. “Saving someone’s life” because of love isn’t ass cliché as it sounds when it actually happens to you.
For me, it all started back in sophomore year when I found my boyfriend. Out of all honesty, I didn’t really know anything about him, I mean we had lunch together and we’d sit at the same table and everything, however, it’s not like we’d talk much. I would crack a couple childish jokes to make everyone laugh and such, like I always try to do, but I didn’t really know anything about him, not even his name, he was just really quiet. All I would do was call him by a nickname that he wouldn’t like, but it was still hilarious to call him. I didn’t really have much memory with him during this year except
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He was just quiet, just like during sophomore year, as well as that he seemed a little awkward and would just sit there and draw. I always liked his art, though at this time, his art style made everything look relatively flat, his art overall was still very nice. September past and finally October came, after a month our seats were switched; difference is now it seems he wanted to walk with me home every day. I walked home alone every day during September so I didn’t mind at all. Gradually, day by day I started getting a vibe from him. It was a relatively depressing vibe, and since I had a caring heart, my curiosity started getting to me. However, since I thought that vibe was nothing and both ways, I wasn’t close enough to butt in to his life like that, I kept quiet and just thought it was probably

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