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Written by Piper Gourely this article entails inside thought of one of the many people affected during hurricane Harvey. This particular one being a new college experience and her first time being away from her home and family. She explains her personal experience of being a freshman in college first time away from home and experiencing a natural disaster. She begins to explain as she witnessed as there the natural disaster going on around her she is just waiting for things to go back to the supposed college norm. The reader gets to see her inner thoughts and conflicts The busy halls and classes not the potential floods getting into the classrooms and not having classes.
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