Adapting With A Divorce: Personal Narrative

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Many events along this short journey of mine has brought this belief front and center in my life. Growing up in today’s world you are ever changing in your own way alongside things such as technology, automobiles, clothing, and lifestyles. This is why you need to adapt with change instead of fight against it. Personally I can speak with experience on this topic because of a drastic change in lifestyle I endured during my second grade school year. One night sitting around the dinner table my parents decided to announce they were getting a divorce. An assortment of feelings and thoughts raced through my naive brain. What is a divorce? Why is my mom crying over this? Will I not get to see my parents anymore? I was sobbing with my two other siblings

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