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    Memorable Experience

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    1) The narrator recalls meeting Christopher, a new coworker at a retail store in the 1990s. Christopher enthusiastically introduced himself and they became close friends. 2) They bonded over intimate conversations about their lives, loves, and desires. The narrator was supportive as Christopher shared difficult parts of his past. 3) Though concerned for his safety, the narrator bid farewell to Christopher before he joined the Marines after 9/11. Sadly, Christopher was killed in Iraq in July 2002. 4) While Christopher's death didn't change the narrator's life, meeting him did. Christopher was an honest and caring person who changed the narrator's perspective for the better. His gift

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    1) The narrator recalls meeting Christopher, a new coworker at a retail store in the 1990s. Christopher enthusiastically introduced himself and they became close friends. 2) They bonded over intimate conversations about their lives, loves, and desires. The narrator was supportive as Christopher shared difficult parts of his past. 3) Though concerned for his safety, the narrator bid farewell to Christopher before he joined the Marines after 9/11. Sadly, Christopher was killed in Iraq in July 2002. 4) While Christopher's death didn't change the narrator's life, meeting him did. Christopher was an honest and caring person who changed the narrator's perspective for the better. His gift

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    1) The narrator recalls meeting Christopher, a new coworker at a retail store in the 1990s. Christopher enthusiastically introduced himself and they became close friends. 2) They bonded over intimate conversations about their lives, loves, and desires. The narrator was supportive as Christopher shared difficult parts of his past. 3) Though concerned for his safety, the narrator bid farewell to Christopher before he joined the Marines after 9/11. Sadly, Christopher was killed in Iraq in July 2002. 4) While Christopher's death didn't change the narrator's life, meeting him did. Christopher was an honest and caring person who changed the narrator's perspective for the better. His gift

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    Memorable Experience

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    Nik Madihah NM
    1) The narrator recalls meeting Christopher, a new coworker at a retail store in the 1990s. Christopher enthusiastically introduced himself and they became close friends. 2) They bonded over intimate conversations about their lives, loves, and desires. The narrator was supportive as Christopher shared difficult parts of his past. 3) Though concerned for his safety, the narrator bid farewell to Christopher before he joined the Marines after 9/11. Sadly, Christopher was killed in Iraq in July 2002. 4) While Christopher's death didn't change the narrator's life, meeting him did. Christopher was an honest and caring person who changed the narrator's perspective for the better. His gift

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    NARRATIVE ESSAY

    Memorable Experience
    There is a little rhyme by an unknown author that starts out, I remember the day;
    I remember the plae! that always ome to my mind when I think about my "riend,
    #hristopher$ I remember the day I met him %i%idly$
    #hristopher approahed me as I was workin& in a retail store in the mall in '((($
    )e had on a tan suit and the bi&&est, bri&htest smile I had e%er seen on a white person*
    )e stuk his hand out "ormally and heer"ully stated, )i* I+m #hristopher* I+m your new
    o,worker$ I look "orward to workin& with you*! )e shook my hand -uikly and ran o"" to
    the ne.t assoiate to introdue himsel" in the same manner$ I stood there bemused by
    his -uirky little pae and mouse like appearane and &enuinely honest approah$ It was
    apparent by his "aial "eatures and style o" introdution that #hristopher was %ery
    youn&$ As it turned out, this was his "irst /ob$ )e had /ust &raduated "rom hi&h shool$
    I remember the day I met #hristopher so well beause we went on to beome
    &reat "riends$ 0e spent time han&in& out a"ter work, and a"ter we both had le"t the
    department store, we still "ound time to &o to &et beer and hot win&s when he was old
    enou&h or to hat about li"e at the a"1$ 0e would run into eah other in passin& and
    always stop and take time to "ill eah other in our li%es$ 0e ne%er rushed a
    on%ersation, and we always &reeted eah other and le"t eah other with a hu&$
    2ur "riendship was intimate, you ould say$ 0e disussed lo%e, li"e, se.,
    desires3anythin& lose "riends would normally open their hearts and minds and talk
    about$ I was there to hear all about his "irst lo%e and the "irst time he had se.$ I learned
    all about his "ather abandonin& him when he was a baby$ I shared my world with him
    and o""ered him ad%ie as well$
    The last time I hu&&ed #hristopher was in the a"1 diretly a"ter our on%ersation
    about his /oinin& the 4arine #orp$ This was in 566', a month a"ter the September ''
    tra&edies$ I said, You did 0)AT7*7 #hristopher, you ould &et killed*!
    8uly 9'
    st
    , 566:, #hristopher was killed in Ira- by enemy "ire$ I still see his
    innoent and beauti"ul "ae as the boy who approahed me se%en years a&o, not the
    "ae o" the thin 4arine that headlined our loal newspapers$
    #hristopher+s death didn+t han&e my li"e, as I+m sure it has "or many$ 4eetin&
    him did$ I ha%e ne%er met suh an honest and arin& person in my li"e$ 8ust knowin&
    him had made me %iew thin&s in a di""erent perspeti%e and in a bri&hter li&ht$ Now that
    he is &one, I reali;e that he was a &i"t to me and I herish the time we spent as "riends$

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