Descriptive Essay: A Pink Out Basketball Game

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On February 10, 2017 Senior High School hosted a pink out basketball game. As I have mentioned before my mom was diagnosed with cancer in the middle of November. She had to go to the hospital a lot so our family was struggling financially. For a couple months people all around Dubuque were raising money for the pink out game. The money that was raised would go to my mom. My mom and I had no clue that they were raising money and when we found out we both started crying. We both felt to thankful. All the money that got raised was going to go to us at the pink out game which I played in. It was men's and women's double header basketball game.
Earlier that day, people wore the pink out shirts that they bought. It was a really good day for me, I kept feeling so thankful and honored to go to Senior High School. People were stopping me in the halls that day telling me, "they were so sorry to hear about my mom". Words can't describe the feelings I was having. This day was really important to me not only because my mom was being honored but
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When I went out there, there was so many people. I was in shock because I couldn’t believe how many people were there. Everyone had there pink shirt on and supported. When the warm- up time was almost over I started to get more and more nervous, I was shaking. When the warm-up was over, we all huddled in and started to get ready to meet the starting line- ups for both teams. I was starting for Senior. When the announcers announced my name I ran out and shook the over girls hand, I was shaking the whole time. After they announced the starting line-ups, we walked out to the middle of the floor to sing the National Anthem. Finally it was game time. We started off very slow and had a lot of quick turnovers. We were down most of the game and lost by a lot. It was very hard for me to play I was extremely emotional to see my mom sitting in the

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