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Personal Narrative: Where I Am Today

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Four years ago I never would’ve contemplated I’d be here writing this essay. Four years ago I never would’ve thought I’d be where I am today. In my first year of high school I started hanging around the wrong people, I was defying my parents and I was even put on probation for truancy from where I had been ditching a lot of school. Probation was one of my most substantial failures. I let my school and parents. I even let myself down. Probation affected me in many ways. I had no freedom, my grades weren’t as exceptional as they could’ve been, and I was always in trouble. Essentially in short terms I was miserable. I didn’t want to feel like that anymore and I finally woke up and realized that this wasn’t what I wanted in life. It came to

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