Personal memory by Jill ronas
2010 • Miami, FL, USA
I remember when my little brothers were eleven and four. I was about the age of fourteen; when my dad asked us did we want to go fishing? You should've seen our faces, they lit up like we were waking up on Christmas morning. We went to Walmart to get fishing poles and bait, boy was we excited. Once, we got there we got right to it. Fishing seemed boring at first but when I felt a fish pulling on my line that all changed. I pulled in a medium sized fish. A nice size for my first fish but man let me tell you how all my excitement went away when my dad told me to take it off the line. I looked at him and said no, I don't fish anymore. Which, turned out to be a lie because now I like fishing its a mind relaxing event.
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