Personal Narrative Essay: A Risk Worth Taking

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A Risk Worth Taking

After a long day at work my entire body aches with pain, It felt like somebody wacked me in the stomach with a baseball bat, as I rode my bike home with my paycheck in my hand I watched out for broken bottles, stray bullets, and gang members on the street ,as you can imagine this is a terrible neighborhood. As I walked into an ally I see my home a small green tent covered with tears, mud, and even a knife sticking out the side, I walked in side and sat on my inflatable mattress and opened the envelope I looked in side of it and it was empty “DammIt!” I exclaimed
I walk outside to the pay phone I put in a quarter and dialed the phone number from the warehouse it dialed for a few seconds
“come on dammit” I said with an angered voice, no one picked up “Hey Johnny” said in a familiar voice immediately I pulled out
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I tried to run away but it swiped me off my feet with one of its tentacles. I heard the last ticks of the grenade “tick tick tick… BOOM!” The grenades destroyed the beast but parts of the concrete road shot everywhere and a few hit me, it felt like I had been shot five times with a semi automatic. In the corner of my Eye I see Roger running towards me before I knew it I fainted.
“Beep,Beep, Beep” went the sound of a hospital machine”where am I” I asked a doctor standing next to me
“ sorry Johnny,” said the doctor “we can't save you to many rocks punctured you”
I looked outside at the park and I see one tree growing, It was green like grass and looked beautiful.
As I sayed in my last words I said as long as that one tree is growing there is nothing to be sorry about” I said in a

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