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Keeping a Promise

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My eighteen scouts were excited

to see me do something I feared:

earning the mountain climbing merit

badge. But since I promised I would

do any valid scout thing they wanted,

I was stuck. My first climb up the

tower was disastrous since the

overconfident boy who was supposed

to lower me back down didn’t buckle

in well. He was jerked out of the

harness, and he passed me going up

the tower as I came down. I thought I