Personal Narrative Essay: My Best Friend Vs. Law School

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When you are writing this essay you are a sophomore in highschool and you are 16 years old. You currently want to be a lawyer. You want to go to Anderson University and then attend law school. You will read this essay again when you are twenty-five years old. You might have gone to Anderson University or you might have gone some place else that offers you a better scholarship. You might have changed your mind on if you want to be a lawyer, but only you know that. I hope you haven’t changed much. I hope you still have your childlike humor and that you are still a very grateful person. Your childhood dreams were the usual. You wanted to be a princess or a fairly, because when you’re that young you think that’s possible. When you were a little older, but still very young, you wanted to be …show more content…
Abby is my best friend. When we were younger neither of us liked each other and we wanted nothing to do with each other. Then as we became older she started to like me, but I still didn’t like her. In 2014 a picture of a dress was going around and people were freaking out because no one really knew the true colors. So she texted me and asked me about it and a two years have past and we’ve been inseparable since. She is the funniest person I know, but at most times she doesn’t mean to be doing something funny. I never would have thought that we would be best friends. Not a day goes by when we don’t talk. People often ask us if we are sisters because we act like we are the exact same person, some even say we look alike, but neither of us see it. Abby and I have done so many amazing things together, even when we both hated each other. We joined a tap class together when we were 5 years old. We rode roller coasters for the first time together. Just this past summer we went to Hilton Head Island together for a week. It was one of the best weeks of my life. I am very lucky to have Abby as my best friend and

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