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Prompt: Describe a time when someone’s words had a lasting impact on you. 


Prompt Response:  one time someone’s words left an impact on me, was 3yrs  ago before my grandpa passed away. I had played a prank on him telling him that I forgot who my cousin was as a joke that we were playing on him and after we told him it was a prank he told us not to ever forget him and keep him in our memory and then he passed away. so what he said always stuck with me.

Summary: today in class we checked our poem for any mistakes.

Reflection: from that I realize that, that situation was forshadowing my future and his kinda.

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