Dana A Whale-Personal Narrative

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Robby yelled to the entire class that I called Dana a whale. Robby laughed, but she cried and ran to the bathroom so she could be alone, and the rest of the class gasped because they were surprised. Once we got called into the hallway, after talking for like 20 minutes, she told us we were getting a detention. I did not admit to it because I did not want to get in trouble, although I did call her it. She gave us a paper to write to apologize to her but I did not admit to saying it, so I had extra work to do. She gave me an entire extra paper to do, which wasn't hard but was still more work, so i didn't like it. Calling Dana a whale was a mean thing to do, so I wish i wouldn't of done it. But, Robby does not feel the same way. He still calls

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