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Personal Narrative Essay: It Was A Cold Winter Night

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It was a cold winter night.. the wind felt like icicles hitting you, but that didn’t stop me from getting back home. This wasn’t the first time I had been in outside in conditions like this. Once I finally reached my home, I approached my door I then realized something that caught my attention. Which was strange.. as my house was up on a little hill away from the town where I had been shopping for food. Food was scarce do to it being winter, so the crops weren’t doing too well but I managed to get enough to last me four or five days. Either way it would have to last me until I could buy more as I had enough money but I was still trying to save up considering I had quite a few bills coming up which I didn’t want to be close to broke when they came. The lock on it was completely broke off and the door was had been beat up quite a bit and Was terrified but also angry so I then went inside and laid the bags of food on the counter before I then pulled out my switch blade that I kept on me.rarely

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