Narrative Essay-Senior Prom

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Next to your wedding date the most important thing that a young woman looks forward to is her senior prom. Prom and of course graduating are the most important things to any high school teenager. You plan months in advanced and spend hundreds of dollars for something that will last only four hours. But it’ll be the best four hours that would’ve ever invested in. Prom is not just a dance but the last event that you and your graduation class will ever share. Prom will forever have a lifelong impact on your life. My prom turned out to be the one of the greatest memories in my senior year. The months following up to prom weren’t so great for me. My boyfriend, at the time, and I had broken up. He decided that my “best friend” was the one for him, leaving me dateless/boyfriend less. Being a strong believer in revenge, I decided that I would get him back at prom by making sure I had a great looking date. Fooling him into thinking that I had moved on and was doing better without him Considering that I still had eight months to find another date, it should’ve been no problem. Right? Wrong, everyone either had a date or I just wasn’t interested in them. So to take my mind off the fact that I would be a dateless loser at prom, I began searching for dresses. Unlike the majority of the girls in my graduating class, I did my dress shopping online. I started out by googling prom dresses in my area, and that eventually led me to a website titled, Promgirl.com. After spending about two hours looking at hundreds of possibilities, I came upon one that I couldn’t let go. It was a gorgeous purple and pink ball gown dress. At the top it was embellished with dark purple sequins and right below the bust it flared out with an intricate pink and purple design, that had splashed of blue and yellow as well. It a feeling that’s hard to describe but you know when a dress is the dress. With
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