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A Short Story : The Story Of My Life

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Death is the thing you hear and known about but never truly know until you face it. I never thought death would frighten me until I was looking at my mom in the hospital; her face bruised from going unconscious and hitting the floor from what the doctors diagnosed her with “unclassified cardiomyopathy”. Death not only caused me to worry for my family, but also even made me worry for my future. With almost losing a special person, I realized that life can suddenly be taken from you. Life is valuable and should not be taken for granted and to savor everything. Hospitals enter our lives whether we like it or not. As a child, I have always been infatuated with how a hospital works. You never know what can happen or what will happen; it is a place full of surprises. But now, I only imagine all of the misfortunes which comes from the walls and doors of a place for the sick and even the dead. My mother was, fortunately, not one of them. My mother is the main person in my life. I love my whole family, but my mom is my everything. I call myself a “Momma’s Boy”, in which I wear like one would a business title: proud and with dignity. She is always my go-to and knows me better than I know myself sometimes. My mother builds me up me when I have fallen weak and weary, but I will never be as strong as my father. My father took care of Sage and I while Mom was in the hospital and has gone through a multitude of events which he has grown from and helped my family to be able to face

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