Personal Narrative: Breaking Barriers

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“Breaking Barriers’’
Jackie Robinson once said “A life is not important except in the impact it has on others’’. Have you ever felt like you weren’t pertty or handsome anymore? when i was in the first grade something very tragic had happend to me I never thought I would see another day. The da of the tragedy I still kept my head up and smiled through all my hurt and pain and it showed me courage and determination to keep smiling and love all my flaws.
When I was in the first grade getting ready to go outside for recess all excited to be outside with my friends. When im outside playing hide and seek not thinking that something was about to happen that could affect my whole entire life, so im crawling through this yellow tunnel this boy was
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The Quote at the top mean other people may not care about your life when your around the same area as them and their not paying attention but when they do something to one person not only dose it affect that one person life but it affects everyone around that person for the rest of their lives so not only I have to live with this heart ache but i may have to have a implant on the tooth that was kicked out when i was seven when I get older cause my permanent tooth is dead. Lastly through all that hurt and pain I learned that Courage and Determination helped me along the way to realize being pretty and having nice things is a pirvlalge because on day something very bad could happen to you and take all those pretty nice things

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