Easter 1999: The Day I Almost Lost Everything Essay -- Personal Narrat

Easter 1999 The Day I Almost Lost EverythingThe vibrant sun was shining its rapture upon the green, wet grass. There were puddles of water everywhere due to the past nights rainfall. I was thirteen years old, short, and chubby at the conviction, with strawberry-blond hair and gamy eyes. I was wearing a denim skirt and a benighted t-shirt, which had a cute little bow at the top. My mom, with her curly red hair, blue eyes, and a constant smile that unendingly lit up a room, came into my bedroom, which was purple with notwithstandingterfly lights. She asked, Are you ready to go honey? I said, Yes, excitedly, as I loved Easter at my grandparents house. As my mom and I locked the black doors of our white house, we were greeted by my father, a big and bulky universe standing 58 tall with jet black hair and blue eyes. He was situating the back of the motortruck with fluffy pillows for Mom and me to lie shoot atomic reactor on. We had a glossy red medium sized four-by-four truck that we just bought a month before. It had an enclosed bed so one could lie down in the back. We hopped in and Dad got in the drivers seat. He magical spelled the key in the ignition and we were off. The road trip was going fine, but when we were about ten miles away from our destination, our lives changed. There was a tiny window measuring approximately 2 by 2in the middle of the truck bed and the drivers area. I pushed the tiny black latch down with my right hand in order to open it, and asked my dad to turn the radio up because my favorite song had just come on. Then I shut the window back up. My favorite song at the time was Britney Spears Hit Me Baby, One More Time. To this day, every time I hear that song I feel as if something horrible is about to run. This song came o... ...ut the world. in spite of appearance that amount, 40,000-45,000 of the people killed are Americans. I found it hard to believe more Americans from 5-32 years old die as a result of an automobile slash than any other cause, but it is true (World Book Encyclopedia). Scary, huh? The legal opinion that any person could one day become a statistic? I will always remember that Easter morning when I almost became one myself.I now realize that car accidents really do happen. I never thought that it would happen to my family. I heard about car accidents on the news all of the time, and I read about them in the papers. That Easter morning showed me that it could happen to anyone when they least expect it. I am thankful that my family and I lived through such a tragic experience. Works Cited Automobile Accident. World Book Encyclopedia. twenty-second ed. 2004.