Personal Narrative: How My Dad Has Changed My Life

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When I was a baby something very bad happened to me. It started a few weeks after my dad got home from the army in Iraq.From that day on my life has never been the same.This was so unexpected that it has changed my life for ever. Even today i think back to that day and wish that my life could have stayed the same. When I was a, baby my dad got home from the army it is pretty cool to have a dad that went to the army because they are tough, and they protected the united states from bad people, and he gave us freedom. When my dad got off of the plane he rode back to America in,and me and my little sister was holding a gigantic sign that said,”Welcome Home Daddy”, my dad came up to me, my mom ,my my grandma, and his dad and he gave

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