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Personal Narrative: Vulnerability
Vulnerability terrifies me. Throughout my life I have always felt the need to be strong and emotionally stable no matter what the situation is.

What I had hoped would be the best Christmas turned out to be one the worst one yet. Less than a week before Christmas in 2007 my father died in a car accident. I hadn’t seen my dad in months because we lived in different cities and two weeks before Christmas break when I finally was going to go visit him I had received a letter in the mail from him. I opened the letter immediately and inside, he wrote about how excited he was to see me and spend time together over break but it was unbeknownst to me that I would actually never see him again.

Growing up I have always had great support from my family
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