Freewriting

This last year has been a devastating one for the high school I went to. It seems as though some higher power has something out for the people that have recently graduated from there. The high school is James L. Mann High School in Greenville, SC. I went off to college thinking things were going to be good, I was going to make new friends and stay friends with those from high school. I didn't know that once I got to USC, four people I knew were going to die. My sister is still at Mann, a junior, and now I am constantly getting information from her on what is going on there and how people feel. Last year a guy that graduated two years before me was killed at a bar in Greenville in a gay hate crime. Another death last year was when a boy my brother's age died, I think he may have accidentally hung himself. His older brother was a year older than me. Now I'm off at college, ready to start a new life when one of my fellow classmates and three more that are older than me have already died.