My Hero's Journey

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I'm getting taken from Africa separated from my family, just so we could be sold. I'm being forced to work for a white family. At only 12 I'm scared and alone, no one to help me or treat me right. During the night I ran my owners were asleep. As I run I think, I escaped I escaped! I'm running frantically across the field. Then I see my mother across the field with the few bushes, she doesn't see me but I don't care I just want to run to her. As I approach her she sees me she runs to me. When we meet I tell her we have to go, now, she asks why I told her that I escaped and I need to go to the woods, she listens here we go.

When we get to the woods my mother mentions that we need to find my brother and twin sisters. The farther

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