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Personal Narrative-It's Shower Time

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I wake up at 6:50 am. As I rise from my bed, as I do at the same time every morning, all I see is gray. Gray walls, gray bed sheets, a gray toilet, and gray bars. It’s strange how frequently you see the color gray in prison. Maybe it’s done on purpose. Maybe it’s done to mirror how each inmate feels.
“Reynolds, it’s shower time! Get your useless ass out here!” This is another thing I have gotten used to hearing every morning. Some power-happy prison guard telling me it’s shower time. We can only shower for 4 minutes. Timothy, my son, would hate this. I remember how he used to take 15 minute showers. He never wanted to get out in the morning, and it always made him late for school. But he didn’t care. He didn’t care about anything. He was the …show more content…

I had always loved breakfast. That’s one of the reasons I felt that my wife was so perfect for me. She was the best breakfast chef in the world. Eggs, bacon, pancakes, french toast, anything I could possibly ask for, she could make better than anybody else. And for that reason, Timothy was a huge fan of breakfast as well. However, after his mother passed, his obsession over breakfast had quickly went away. He never really ate breakfast anymore. Even when I tried to make breakfast for him, he wouldn’t touch it. He claimed he wasn’t hungry, but that was only because he didn’t want me to be upset, or to realize that he was upset. But I knew the truth. That was the thing about Timothy. Although in reality he was actually a criminal, he was a very kind person. He was always trying to make others feel better. However, he also never let anybody talk to him about his emotions. At least not after his mother passed. His mother was a very emotional person. She was always talking about feelings. After all, it was her job as a therapist. I think that is what made him so emotional. His mother. And after she died, he tried to hide that emotion as much as possible. That is when he started to become lazy in school, and started to

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