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Personal Narrative: How Wrestling Changed My Life
I started wrestling in in high school when I was a junior at the age of sixteen. I got in to wrestling when I left boxing. I wanted to peruse a new sport in my high school. Wrestling had changed my life from being a person that was always in short temper verses a person that would always respect his opponent. Wrestling to some was just a sport but to me it was my passion. A major change in my life was to wrestle after a fibula bone fracture. Because I had lost my position due to a injury.

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