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难以忘怀的万圣节英语美文
A Halloween No One Will Forget
When I was seven, my friend Sarah and I went to a horse show to compete in a barrel-racing event. That"s where we both met Caleb. Caleb"s mom is a barrel racer and horse trainer, and Caleb was helping his mom at the show by loading and unloading her equipment for her.
Even though he was older than us, Sarah and I both thought Caleb was really nice and a lot of fun to be around. Everyone liked him. We got to be good friends with him and we would hang out together whenever we would see him.
The year after we met Caleb, I had a Halloween party at my house. The morning after my party, my mom and dad were listening to the news and heard that a boy had accidentally hanged himself the night before. I didn"t think too much about it until I heard who it was. It was Caleb.
One of the horse farms in our area had a Halloween haunted hayride and Caleb had gotten a job working there with about fourteen other kids who were supposed to scare the people who went on the hayride. For instance, a guy would open and close the lid of a coffin and this girl would jump out at the people. Caleb"s job was to jump out of the woods as the hayride passed him.
I guess that just jumping out of the woods and saying, "Boo!" wasn"t enough for Caleb. He always loved to get a rise out of people. Right next to Caleb there was a skeleton hanging from a tree. Just before the wagon got to him, Caleb took the rope from around the skeleton"s neck and put it around his own neck because he thought that would scare people more than the skeleton did. What he didn"t realize was that, even though his feet were touching the ground, he didn"t weigh enough to keep the branch that the rope was tied to, from whipping back up, making the rope tight enough to choke him. When he started choking, the other kids thought he was just goofing around like he always did, trying to put on a big act. Caleb couldn"t get the rope off by himself from around his neck because he had double-knotted it. By the time everyone realized that he wasn"t kidding around, it was too late. Even though they tried to save him with CPR, Caleb died. He was only fourteen.
When I heard this I couldn"t believe it. Caleb had his whole life ahead of him. Our whole town was shocked and everyone was so sad. It took everyone several months to just get over it. Sarah and I would talk about all of the good times we had and we comforted each other. But even now, I don"t feel like I"m completely over it.
I think about Caleb and how everything would be different if only he hadn"t put that noose around his neck. I guess he didn"t think it was dangerous, but now we all know that it was. I realize now that you really have to think about the things that you do, before you do them. Even though you may think nothing can ever happen to you, you can prevent accidents before they happen simply by realizing there can be dangerous consequences from your actions. I hope that everyone who reads Caleb"s story will think before they act and think twice before they ever put anything around their necks. (：夏根建)
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