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Personal Narrative Essay

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2008
“Welcome to Bojangles Chicken, may I take your order?” Lyra asked into the receiver of her new job.
“Yeah, let me get an uh, Number 4 with a large iced tea,” the customer replied.
“That will be $5.75. Pull around to the first window.”

Lyra had been working at her new job roughly a week and she already hated it. She smelled like chicken daily and her feet ached from the long hours. This was not how Lyra saw her life a year after high school. She had dreams of being a successful veterinarian and leaving the state of North Carolina. Instead she hadn’t received her financial aid and her academic scholarship didn’t fully cover her tuition. Here she was stuck in Winston Salem North Carolina just like her mother, Grandmother and every other woman in her family. …show more content…

Nothing’s free.”
“No catch, I just want to see you make it,” Diablo smiled seductively.

Lyra was skeptical about Diablo but she knew she needed the five grand to get on with her life. She weighed the options in her mind and convinced herself that God was blessing her. Lyra wanted to go off to college and be something, but she knew that working at Bojagles and attempting to save money with her mother robbing her wasn’t the way to go.

“Deal,” Lyra told Diablo smiling, unaware that she just took a wrong turn on the road leading to her purpose.

Lyra didn’t know that underneath the smile, flashy clothes and calm demeanor Diablo had an agenda. The devil always comes to kill, steal and destroy. Lyra attempted to justify her actions by saying God was blessing her, unknowingly linking herself directly to the devil disguised as a good guy. Money had Lyra’s mind captivated and she was willing to do anything to make a better life for herself. She convinced herself that dancing was temporary and she’d do it just to get enough money to leave. Little did she know that a money driven lifestyle is never that easy to walk away

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