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Personal Narrative: The Game Of Bag Football
It all started when I was in the fifth grade. Our class was out at recess playing a game of flag football, girls against the boys.
There stood Penny Clark, here hands cupping her nose, “Ronnie it’s just a game of FLAG football!” she cried. I had punched Penny when she yanked my flag off of my hip and did a victory dance in front of me while waving my flag in my face.
I put the flag back on my hip after she dropped to the ground and the flag landed at my feet, “It’s a boys sport you got what you deserved.” I told her. My class mates were standing around me in a circle as a teacher ran across the playground. When she seen Penny she started yelling at me and sent me to the principal’s office. I sat there and listened to the short, fat man preach about how I shouldn’t hit other people “Especially a girl.” I wanted to laugh and tell him my step dad did it to my mom all the time. I wanted to tell him that he hit me time after time when I didn’t do something perfect to the T the way he wanted it done.
Mom showed up so the principal told me to wait in the hallway so he could speak to her in private. I knew she wouldn’t tell him why I was such an angry kid, instead she would lie and tell him she didn’t know why I did what I did and that she would have a talk with me about it.
I got a week of out of school
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Again, she was totally okay with how things were between us. It was exactly what I needed, I had come to the conclusion that a steady girlfriend was something I didn’t need. As the school year went by Darcel and I would meet on the weekends, our weekends consisted of watching movies, having sex, going out to eat and having more sex. When she told me she had been accepted into Harvard I was pretty bummed, I liked her I just didn’t want to be with her and now with her leaving to go to college so far away I knew that it wasn’t going to

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