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How I Survived a Car Fire

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Originally written on October 7, 2024 for a writing class. I always wanted to make the news, but not like this. The Hamilton Spectator  wrote on June 24, 2016: “Two lanes of the Fort Erie-bound QEW were shut down Friday around 5 p.m. after a car caught fire near Bartlett Avenue in Grimsby. Ontario Provincial Police and the Grimsby Fire Department responded, with firefighters dousing the flames. Both lanes re-opened before 6 p.m.” Here’s the real story: I had been working in Waterloo, training for my new job as a communications assistant at the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union. It had been two weeks since I had been home, as I was living out of my parents’ house in Guelph versus commuting. My vehicle, a 1998 Chrylser Interpid (or “Intepid” as I called it, because someone stole the “R”), was a hand-me-down from my grandfather, via my mother, after my sister decided it was not the car for her. My car before that was a 1996 Pontiac Grand Am, nicknamed “Piece O’Shy...
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Finding the One: My Journey to Claim My Writing Desk

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Three years ago I started to dive into my need to write, and for that many years I have been searching for the desk that would serve as my space to create. After much long anticipation, I finally found her - Helga, is her name, with Herman serving as my chair. Helga is adopted from a woman named Anya, an artist who had needed to find her a good home. Helga comes with her brother, Herman, who was gifted to her as part of a set. Helga is blond with a sleek, Scandinavian desk, matching Herman's strong, stable support. Together, they are a formidable duo, who will now support me on my journey. Ironically enough, Helga Hermann was the name of my third grade teacher who, unbeknownst to her, is part of my origin story as a writer. As part of a class project, we studied newspaper and writing, creating a newspaper for our class. I was fortunate enough to be a front-page feature about our field trip to the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. From then, I would have an on-again, off-again relationship...
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Location: St. Catharines, ON, Canada
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