Everyone's senior year is full of the same things, the homecoming dance, the football games, preparing for college, and a fire?

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Everyone’s senior year is full of the same things, the homecoming dance, the football games, preparing for college, and a fire?  You may think that a fire is an unusual thing to list, but it is something that is a reality for senior year.  On September 22, 2005 my family’s memories and everything that I’ve loved was swept up in a cloud of smoke rising above my home.  No matter how hard I tried to believe it wasn’t true, I knew from then on, everything would be different.

It is homecoming week, and today is decade day. Since my friends and I are seniors, we are the 1980’s.  I got my outfit from Goodwill about a week ago.  Only $5.00 for the whole outfit!  I was a little late to school today because my ride was sick so my mom is taking me.  Everything is going great in sculpture class. We are all taking pictures of our funny and tacky outfits.  I’m feeling a cold coming on and I feel like I need to call my mom so I can go home to take some medicine.

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 It’s a really gloomy day on the way back home. I sit on the couch in front of the T.V. and I’m eating a delicious bowl of cereal, Count Chocula, my favorite.  The clock says 2:30. Wow. Where did the time go?  I’m really tired now and I think it’ll be a perfect time to catch a nap. Wait a second where’s that smoke coming from?  Is it from my room?  That was the start of the worst day of my entire life.

 I opened the door to my room and it was full of smoke.  So thick you ...

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