Personal Narrative: How My Mom Changed My Life

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I have never had the picture perfect family, I have absolutely no memory of my parents being together. I have always lived with my dad and visited my mom, that is how my life has been. Every weekend was dedicated to my mom and the weekdays I would be with my dad. I was already used to this and it was a normal thing for me. This is why when my mom moved to Ohio, it wasn’t the biggest change for me. I would just spend all my time with my dad and then go visit my mom during the summer. Of course being away from my mom was and is hard but it has ultimately made my life better.
My mom moving to Ohio had a huge impact on my life. It brought me closer to my Mexican culture and made me realize how much I love it. All of my life I have been the “white girl”, whether it be in my family or at school, or when I’m out in public with my dad. It never really bothered me until I reached middle school where kids would tell me that I wasn’t really Mexican or that I’m not “Mexican enough” because I’m white. It hurt me because I love my Mexican culture and I love that I am Mexican. I hated having to prove who I was just because I looked a certain way. I speak Spanish, I am a second generation U.S citizen, and because I am white it takes the authenticity of being Mexican away from me. Although I know I am white, people know this just by looking at me, I felt like I needed to always prove how Mexican I was and I still feel the need to do this now. When my mom moved away I realized that I had this beautiful culture in my life and I needed to learn more about it and embrace it. I love my mom and i love who I am, I love that I am able to have two different parts of me, I just wish that these two different parts of me, white and Mexican, could come together. I have learned a lot about who I am as a Mexican and I am great full that a
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A lot of people assume that I don’t have a good relationship with her, or that she “abandoned me”. In reality I talk to her all the time, for hours at a time. When I visit her during the summer we talk for hours in the middle of the night about everything that comes to our mind. The reason I believe we have this great relationship is because of her being away from me. When she moved she would call me every single day and we would talk for so long about what I did at school or what I’m going to do during the weekend. Eventually these conversations became more mature as I aged and has turned into the deep and personal conversations we have now. My mom knows things about me that I would never want to directly tell my dad. I genuinely believe that if I lived with my mom she would never know the things that she knows now. Her being away has basically forced us to communicate a lot and I love that we have created a strong relationship. It feels great to be able to call her whenever I feel like it and just be able to talk and talk without being judged. My mom moving across the country is truly a blessing in disguise in my

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