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Every summer as a kid, my family took a week off and went to the beach. We all loved riding the waves with a large raft at the beach, including my Dad. We took turns riding into the beach since we had just one raft. When I was riding, something hit me in my back pretty hard. I wasn’t wearing my glasses so it took me a minute to locate what had just hit me. Boom, it hit me again. This time I saw it. It looked like a shark. As I panicked, I began yelling for help. Luckily, the lifeguard was the person to help me. I would have been eaten by the shark if he had not been there.

What happened if the lifeguard didn’t help the writer?