“I really didnt wanna go, but once it was over I couldn't believe it was.” -My grandfather He told me to close my eyes and imagine I was twenty one just getting started to live my adult life with the one I love. He says “Now imagine getting pulled away from that. Getting taken away from all your friends and family and going somewhere where nothing but guns and prayers can be found. What would you do? How would you feel?” My grandfather Antonio fought in world war II during the year of 1942. He was
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During childhood, many siblings fight violently with each other. However, when siblings reach adulthood, many start to help and protect each other. In We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson, two sisters live together in an isolated environment. They are recovering from the murder of their entire family six years ago. The remaining members of their family are Mary Katherine Blackwood, or Merricat, Constance Blackwood, and Julian Blackwood, or Uncle Julian. Merricat and Constance are
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Mom woke me up by reading to my younger sister that morning. A pang of jealousy hit me not for the first time in my short life. Why didn’t she ever bother to read to me? Why didn’t she wake me up to say goodbye like she did every morning for Olivia? I loved her just as much as Olivia did. Why did she always get everything? I turned over and opened my eyes to the sound of my mother’s voice. I scrunched my face up. The bright morning sun was far too bright for me. I watched my mother read and smile
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My parents moved to America when I stayed at home in Europe with a foster parent I was three years old … 50 years later. We were sailing on a ship in the ocean with many others for a long time and we are traveling to New York I have one kid that I adopted, his name is Frederick and I take care of him I am Charles. I work for a ship merchant and want to go to America for a better life and find new treasures. Frederick is very easy to take care. Kind, helpful, trustworthy is what he is. Travelling
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When I was younger, around the age of 5, my mom sent my sister and I to go on a vacation and see my family in El Salvador. We were there for about two months, and that experience was so different from anything that I’ve done. Such as walking up big hills just to get food, and then having to bring all that back. Riding horses, cleaning up after the animals waste, milking cows and pigs, fishing, going to Honduras, being a part of a soccer team, and living in a free open house. All of that just made
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Growing up times were hard but as a family we learned how to make it through any situation. Coming up my father was in and out of prison so certain things a man should teach his child I learned on my own or from my mother but there was only so much she could teach me. I have a very large family my mother who has five children and my father who has six so I have always had the physical support maybe not the money but we have always managed to stay afloat. I am originally from Houston Texas the south
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I had a fairly normal childhood. I was a migrant until I was about 8 years old. My family and I would travel from Weslaco, Texas, to Norcross, Minnesota, and back, so my parents and their families could work in the fields. Around when I turned 8, we moved back and stayed here in Weslaco. I have three younger brothers. We all live in a two story, two bedroom house. Both of my parents dropped out of high school, and married each other. Happy, talkative, positive and strong, are all words that I would
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Lucy Dong, one of my friends, was born in Shanghai, China, in 1963. As a young child, she was very close to her older brother, Paul Dong. At the age of 54, she currently works as a mechanical engineer at a public school. Lucy had the most fun in her life during high school, back in China. She said that “I didn’t have to worry about anything, I could spend time with friends, and do whatever I wanted to”. Although she had many boyfriends in high school, that didn’t stop her from being a good student
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Blake Sims was born on January 3, 1992 in Gainesville, GA. During Blake’s junior year of high school, his daughter, Kyra, was born. He married Rafaela Souza, Kyra's mother, in 2009. In 2013, after four years of marriage, Blake and Rafaela divorced when the strain of a long-distance relationship became too much (she was living in Gainesville while he was attending Alabama). Blake Sims is an American Football running back who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Alabama and was
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I was born in liberty city on 1992. I was raised by my mother while my dad was a cop. He was to hard into his work and barely came home. I also had an older brother that always studied. When I got older my mother had another child with a different man and that caused my mother and father to break up. My mother had it rough because she didnt know who the babys dad was and me and my brother didnt talk to her. After the birth of my step sister my brother was just about leave school and go into collage
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