I went to Dunkin Donuts at 1:30 pm. I went at 1:30 pm because I had slept in. I slept in because I went to bed late. I went to bed late because I was with my friend all night. I was with my friend because I missed her. I missed her because I had been away at school. I was away at school because I wanted to be in a social environment and not stay home. I didn’t want to stay home because I don’t like my town. I don’t like my town because it’s small and there’s not much to do. Since there’s not much to do, my friends and I just hang out at each other's houses. We usually go to my best friend’s house because her mom makes us good food. She makes us food because she enjoys cooking and likes to feed people. She is usually catering to 8 girls when we go over but she doesn’t mind. She doesn’t mind because we have all been best friends since elementary school. We met through gymnastics. I did gymnastics for 8 years. I only did it for 8 years because I quit after freshman year of high school. I quit because I hurt my foot badly. I hurt it when I was doing a dismount off the balance beam and landed the wrong way. I had to quit because of my injury because I couldn’t risk doing more damage to my nerves. I was sad that I had to quit, but also relieved. I was relieved because gymnastics and school were causing me stress. They were causing me stress because I didn’t know how to manage my time and was falling behind in school. Since I was falling behind, I had to get a tutor. The tutoring did not work out though. It didn’t work out because the tutor didn’t explain things well. He would use too many words when I would need a concept simplified. Since the tutor didn’t work out, I went to my teachers individually. I went to my teachers because I realized they would explain it best. After going to my teachers for a while I was able to catch up and understand what we were learning. Since my grades were going back up, I joined golf in the spring. I joined golf because I wanted to try something new. I wanted to try something new because I no longer did a sport and wanted something to do after school. I joined with my four friends as a joke at first. We joined as a joke because we didn’t know how to play. Even though we never played, we were able to pick it up quickly. We were able to pick it up quickly because we had good coaches. I got really close to my coaches and ended up loving doing golf the next three years. I only did it for three years because my senior year ended early. It ended early because of corona. I was upset that I wouldn’t be able to play my last year of high school, but my friends and I were able to go to the driving range before lockdown.
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Very nice work with this Leah. You were able to draw clear points from your past - aka your given circumstances - to your present.