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Personal Narrative: My Grit In Me

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I have had grit within me for as long as i 've known. I am always willing to try challenging things and never am one to give up without a fight. Like when I was in the eighth grade. I was 13 and had been working hard lifting weights and pushing myself in hard football practices trying to prepare for the season. Then finally it was time for our first game. I can 't remember who it was against but we started the game and it was a good game. tho we were winning of course. I was having a really good game with quite a few tackles and a catch but then in the third quarter when we were playing man defense, I was on my guy but when I looked back I saw the quarterback pass the ball and a big ole boy caught it. I cut back and made a diagonal path

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