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Personal Narrative: The Tornado
The Tornado It was July 22, 1983, and a nice and sunny day until 5:00pm. Duke, Mary, and I were staying after school for guitar practice. We were in Mr. Jones classroom when the wind started blowing really hard. Then the police man came in and yelled, "There is a tornado get the kids in the gym now!" So, we went in the gym. "I'm scared," Joy said. "Me too," said Duke, who sounded very scared. "This is my first time being in school when there was a tornado," explained Mary. The police man said, "we are going to go in the basement. Because, it is getting worse. "BOOM!' Crackled the storm.

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