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Literacy Narrative: How Wrestling Affected My Life
Isaiah Branch

English 1101

1/26/2013 Literacy Narrative

As a result of most of my family being athletes, I was pretty much destined to carry on the torch in the world of sports. Wrestling took me by storm early at an early age and continued to grow on me throughout my teenage years. The topic that I want to express to readers is that of how wrestling affected my life. Through my childhood, maybe from the ages of 7 to 8, I was told that I should participate in a sport. My mother was a great track runner in her younger days, while my father was a great basketball player in his. I was not impressed with track at all, nor did I want to play basketball. Although I enjoyed watching basketball, I was never really good at it. One day


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