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Personal Narrative: Melanie
Melanie,

I just wanted to touch base because my dad and I have been talking and have come to the conclusion that we both feel that I've never really been able to voice my reasoning for doing what I did and, if I was give the opportunity it was given to me in a very stressful time. As I'm sure you know I was made the section leader of my band's alto saxophone section and a part of that responsibility was leading small group rehearsals, getting people to work, and things like that. Brandon was a member of my section and didn't make that job easy. He always seemed to find a way to make it difficult to lead a rehearsal whether it be goofing around, talking to other people, or not playing the piece of music that we were trying to practice it always
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