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Personal Narrative: Violence In Nebraska

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It bleeds throughout the city and poisons whatever it can curl its talons around. The beast has found an unexpected home in the unassuming state of Nebraska; this terrible creature being violence. The news hardly goes a week without reporting about some shooting here or a bulgury over there. The violence has become such an uncontrollable problem that it touches even those far from the areas considered dangerous. I have lived my entire life in a wealthy suburb on the outskirts of Omaha, but not even I can escape from this sickness that rages across the state. At nine years old, I was witness to the histeria that followed the Van Maur shooting, listening to my mom talk about relatives who had visited the mall earlier in the day. Just a few
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