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Personal Narrative: A Major Injury In South Carolina
After a major injury, sometimes, you think you won’t heal and will remain crippled forever. That major injury happened to me in South Carolina. I found a restaurant called ‘The Library’, and I strolled across the street to the sidewalk in front of the restaurant when I got the bright idea to jump from the blacktop to the sidewalk. I sailed through the air, about to land gracefully when I saw the sharp metal rod in the ground midair and impaled my foot one inch into it. I forgot about the incident after a few days, and it didn’t become such a big deal as I thought it would’ve.

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