My Family: My Migration To The United States

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I lived in Guatemala for 11 years in those 11 years my life was difficult my parents came to the United States when I was 1 year old 10 years lived with my grandmother she was the one who taught me to walk and talk she taught me how good and bad that the world was for me was difficult because I did not have my parents with me when I turned 9 years tube a swimming competition from that age I started to dance, play soccer, swim. In 2012 in the month of September my grandmother became ill and she was hospitalized when the x-rays were made the doctors found 1 tumor and half of the small intestine died and also half of the large intestine was dead when I heard that I felt that the world was coming to me.

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