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My Hero : Personal Narrative : My Heroine

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My heroine Compassionate, empathetic, generous, reliable, persistent, ambitious, sincere- my heroine can be described as any of these characteristics. My heroine is someone who is admired by many people for her personality and her actions towards other people. I admire her for her unlimited amount of love and determination towards the advancement of other people. In December of 2012, my friend and I were having a small sleepover at my house for her birthday. Christmas Eve was less than a week away, so we were telling each other about the items we had wrote on our Christmas list and listing them in order of the ones we wanted the most.
While my friend Kelly was telling me about her list, she accidentally said, “My brother and I are not …show more content…

Therefore, we decided to do everything we could to give them the best Christmas even if it meant we had to give up our gifts.
On the same day, we contacted a local club that is dedicated to helping people in the community. We told them the situation and asked if they would be willing to help us give these children a good Christmas. They were willing to donate one hundred dollars to help buy these children the gifts they had asked for. The money we received did not go as far as we would have liked, so we started taking donations from local businesses and family friends. My mom drove around town telling people the situation and asked if they would like to support the cause. My mom and I asked anyone we could possibly think would be willing to help these children have a good holiday with their family. Some people donated money while other people asked for a list and donated actual gifts Kelly and her brother asked for. Once people started asking for a list, we told the parents what we were doing for Kelly and her brother. In return, they thanked us by giving us hugs and offering us dinner. However, we only asked for their Christmas lists, so we could give them to the people who had asked for them and get the gifts with the donated money.
Once all the gifts had been bought or donated, my mom and I stayed up for hours throughout the night wrapping all the gifts that had been bought for Kelly and her brother. In order to do

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