Creative Writing: Can You Just Let Me Die?-Personal Narrative

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The warm summer air brought with it feelings of the past— sneaking out of the compound, running in the courtyard, partying every other night. Never again could Jirou go back to his family in Japan, not after what they had done to him. When he was found, left for dead by his own beloved brother, a woman took him in. Jirou took half a year to wake up after being nursed back to health by the woman— Angelita. Jirou woke up to find he was only partially who he used to be. He had scars surrounding what was left of his body, and was missing parts of his limbs. Angelita was there to explain and calm Jirou. “Can you just let me die?” Jirou tried putting his arm over his face, only to find nothing. “What kind of marital worker would I be if I let that happen?” She retorted, while reaching down to present a mechanical arm. …show more content…

Angelita summarized how he had been “killed” by his family’s crime organization for being deviant to their ways. She explained how she found him, somehow still clinging to life and promptly brought him to her own medical facility, where he now lay, wishing for death. “It’s not in my nature to leave anyone to die. Not even if they were in the wrong,” she stated while attaching the arm to Jirou. After attaching his new mechanical limbs, it was back to work the two of them. Jirou was trained how to use his new body and put through rigorous tests to assure he was ready to be released back into the world. It took a full year to be ready for release. It was summer and Jirou missed his family, despite their horrible actions. Angelita was noted a significant decline in Jirou’s health once the air became warm again and suggests he leave the large medical facility where he had been calling home for the past

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