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Personal Narrative: Driving Vs. Driving
It was late August early September year 2010 when I first drove I started off on a dirt road in Lathan, Alabama. It was 80 degrees, “I’m nervous” I’m saying to myself “I’m only fifteen”. My grandfather (paw-paw) says to me “Domonique you can do it you have to learn someday, it’s best to start off young learning” I didn’t know if I was more nervous than driving or driving along. So I took a deep breath in went through with it, I was doing well until I was coming around a curve in didn’t realize a mailbox was on side of a curb. Before I knew it “BANG” I ran into the mailbox, a fence, and a garbage can. The cause of that happening was because I was already nervous about driving; it was new to me by coming around a curb I was just getting use

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