Personal Narrative: My Dad

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My Dad

One sunny morning on December 14, 2013, I woke up to get ready for school when my mom was working 3rd shift. When I was heading to take a shower she called me into her room, to tell me the bad news that had happened last night. She told me that my dad had passed away around 10:30 p.m. the night before. She said my dad told my grandma that he was having breathing problems and that he wanted her to call the ambulance to pick him up, because in the past four years he has had multiple heart attacks.

On the way to the hospital he had to take two ambulances to get to the hospital. When they switched him to the second ambulance his last words were “I don’t feel good, I don’t feel good at all.” When he was switched to the second ambulance that’s when they noticed he had no pulse. As soon as he got to the hospital my grandma had already called my aunt (my dad’s sister) and they met …show more content…
I felt so bad because i was scared to touch my own dad because i didn’t understand what it would mean. I wanted to run off but i couldn’t, I wanted to go back in the corner and I wanted to stay away from everyone. I was finally able to go in the other room but, I didn’t want to be in a room with everyone’s emotions. So one of my sisters came into the room and talked to me. She didn’t say too much, because she wasn’t sure what she could say or do to make me feel any

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