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08/25/2024

Writing to you from Denver, Colorado.

Something I didn’t want to do

My 19th birthday was this past week. Everyone was asking me what I wanted to do, and I had no clue until the day before my birthday…

There were plenty of things I could have done, but I was given the idea of going skydiving. When I thought about jumping out of a plane it definitely did freak me out.

So, after assessing the few options I had in my mind, I realized that I should go skydiving, only because of the simple fact that I didn’t want to do it.

I booked my spot to jump out of a plane at 7:30am the next day.

My girlfriend and I got to the skydiving place and they told us to get on a bus that would take us to where the plane picks up the skydivers.

The bus was old, dirty, and rickety. The bumpy dirty road caused the entire thing to shake. Along the way, we passed another company bus that was sitting directly in the middle of the road with one of its wheels missing.

Old, broken-down …

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