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Personal Narrative: My Case Tragedy
Peyton lawley
Hodges
Writing 7-1
3 February
Personal narrative-memoir

Unfortunately, if one lives long enough tragedy will strike. Suffering and unhappiness can come in the forms of physical, emotional, or both types of pain. In my case tragedy occurred when my friend Josh died. He had been working on an old house and something from the walls had got in his lungs and he died shortly after they found it. Josh was one of my good friends and everyone missed him. He was the youth minister at our church and it really affected us. Our church was never the same after josh died he was a really good friend. His daughter was born after his death. As a result i have become more aware to not take things for granted.

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