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Personal Narrative: The Maze Runner

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This year was my last year of cross country. I practice every day and two years ago, I got injured. I got injured by twisting my leg on the sidewalk pavement. I was running from Indian Ridge back to Senior that day. So I had to do physical therapy and stretch out my legs. I had really good personal records this season and I intend to keep my goal of amazing PRs. My goal this season was to get under 20 minutes and outrun lots of runners. For my 18th birthday, I was in the TH, which is our local newspaper, and there was a quote from The Maze Runner with the title, "We 've got a runner!". My parents made a comment to the paper, "Our little boy is all grown up." That made me feel ecstatic and accomplished. In the movie The Maze Runner, a boy named

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