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Personal Narrative: One Night Can Change Everything

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One Night Can Change Everything
The Louvre. A museum with a lifetime of pure bliss and perfection. This place is perplexing, yet peaceful. In an odd way, life can be just like the Louvre. If someone would have informed me that I would be sitting in downtown Paris, all because of my accomplishments this far in life, I would of thought it was impossible. The truth of the matter is, I lost my father, so unexpectedly that I would have to grow up and be strong. Now I know that no matter what life decides to chunk at me, I can use my struggle as encouragement to rise above any situation.
To say that the day started and felt the same way every other day has ever been would be cliche, but if I am being honest, that is exactly what happened. I woke up to the sounds of my alarm, “BEEP, BEEP.” With an annoyed moun, I rolled out of bed and got ready to go on with another lifeless day at Thornapple Kellogg Middle School. The school was in the middle of nothing to say the least. The town had a population of 3,000 common, imbecilic people. The saying “small towns have small minded people” could not be more precise. My father choose to drive me to school everyday. He would drop me off in his suburban that was the color of a starless night, but was rushty around the wheels. In the inside the seats were gray, but I can still remember the passenger seat had a stain from a spilt diet coke from …show more content…

Music one of things my dad always encouraged me to stick with, therefore I did. I became drum major for my high school’s marching band and have become section leader in the honors choir. I have received many awards and honors for both my musical talents and my education achievements. These awards got me nomatied and expected to be an ambassador of music for the state of Ohio. I now get to tour europe and sing in a choir and play flute in the band. This is what got me to the most famous art museum in the world. The

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