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House Burning Down - College Essay

House Burning Down

It was in the middle of winter on a dark smoggy night, chills were
running through the house in and out of my room like a quiet ghost silently
coming and silently going. As I lie awake in my bed thinking of what the
next day should bring, my eye's start to grow heavy as I doze off. In the
distance I hear a faint booming sound, soon it starts getting louder and
louder and still louder until I could hear nothing but the noise. I was
unpleasantly startled and hurried over to my window. As I look out I could
see nothing but smoke and fire, catching this by surprised I ran to my
little brother's room, finding no one. Then in the distance I could hear
faint voices of terror calling my name. It ...

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mine. I really didn't know what exactly to
think at that time until it all clicked upstairs. The noise the night
before had been the house burning down and the natural gas line exploding.
Later in the article it said that our block of houses wouldn't have any
natural gas heating until the line was repaired. The first thing I did was
run to the kitchen, finding my Mother and Father there fixing breakfast. I
started talking so fast I really don't even know what came out. My Mom told
me to calm down and sit at the table. Doing so she gave me a glass of milk,
and seeing that I was distressed sat down next to me and asked me what was
on my mind. Taking full advantage of her attention I told her as slowly
and detailed as possible at the time being. As soon as I had finished my
frantic attempt to sler all that out, she didn't laugh at me but just got
that look in her eyes where you know that she didn't believe a word of it.
The fist thing she said in response was "Where did you hear ...

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Added: 11/7/2007 04:35:17 PM
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