Something I Wish Had Never Happened Essay

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Something I wish had never happened Essay
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Some things happen for good reasons, some things happen for bad reasons, and sometimes things happen for no reason. It’s part of a thing called life. Life takes unexpected turns and can catch you off guard in the blink of an eye. This is something I had to experience just as many others have before me. My best friend or Grandpa, was diagnosed with Acute Leukemia, my like turned upside down just like the snap of your thumb and middle finger creating fiction.

My Grandpa was born in Millport, Alabama in 1944. Coming up in a poor family with eight siblings he did not have much throughout his childhood and even teenage years. Growing up in poverty he learned very quickly the value you a dollar.
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It’s part of a thing called life. Life takes unexpected turns and can catch you off guard in the blink of an eye. This is something I had to experience just as many others have before me. My best friend or Grandpa, was diagnosed with Acute Leukemia, my like turned upside down just like the snap of your thumb and middle finger creating fiction.

My Grandpa was born in Millport, Alabama in 1944. Coming up in a poor family with eight siblings he did not have much throughout his childhood and even teenage years. Growing up in poverty he learned very quickly the value you a dollar. He has worked his whole life up until he retired in 2014, with a company called CEICO where he had began working right after graduating high school. As years went on the company decided to make an expansion and move a company to a town called Mount Pleasant, Iowa. This is where My Grandpa would meet my Grandma and start a family eventually ending up with my brother and
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I still can feel the bitterness that overwhelmed my mouth when my mom told me what had happened. My mom being young when she had my brother and I, never had anyone close enough pass away or get diagnosed with an illness before so it was something that was heart shattering to realize that was happening to someone so close to me before. I left my suite room after talking to my mom and reassuring her I would be ‘’fine’’, sat in my car and cried. I had never been so furious I was yelling, and screaming, asking God why he was doing this and questioning my faith. I just kept wishing this had never

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