Personal Narrative: My High School Team

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When I was younger my dream was to play basketball for my high school team. When that time came I was faced with several obstacles. My eighth grade year, during one of our games, I tore my right ACL and several other ligaments in my knee. Finding out the severity of the injury, I thought I was never going to get to play for the high school team. I was determined to get back and after several months of rehab I was finally healed to play my freshman year. Junior year I continued to worked hard to catch back up to everyone and received some varsity minutes. However, I was faced with the same injury on my left knee during a practice. Once again, my junior year, I was faced with the challenges of battling back to play my senior year.
After weeks

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