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Personal Narrative-The Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki
Today was a weird day, it’s not like one of those days where you sit around class secretly checking your phone under the table; hoping that the teacher won’t notice, but everybody knows that they know what’s going on. It’s like they have eyes all over the room, under the desks and in each corners of the room. Always constantly watching your every move. Today was a day where I paid attention to the lesson. I have to say, my history teacher thought us a pretty interesting topic. It wasn’t like a boring ass lecture on the history of molasses or anything. Although, molasses has a pretty interesting chemical compound and molecular structure. The topic was about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two atomic bombs that forced the Japanese to surrender to the Americans. In fact, because of how engaged I was, I totally forgot about my doctor’s appointment. …show more content…
Sore throats doesn’t usually last this long. That was what concerned me. If I can recall, my friend had a sore throat, for several months. The weird thing about this was it never bothered him, not even a bit. When he went to get his annual physical exam, the nurse found a bacterial infection in his throat. It was pretty bad, it got to the point where he had to go through numerous surgeries to get rid his throat of the bacteria. I can’t imagined how unpleasant it might have been for him and his wallet. The cost of surgery is expensive, but I can’t imagine how expensive it might have been to have multiple of them. That’s why this whole sore throat thing is worrying me so

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