Personal Narrative Essay: Leaving The Place I Call Home

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Leaving The Place I Call Home My whole world was crashing down around me and I could do nothing to stop it. The van was leaving, the car was started, and the tears were streaming down my face. Every person I had ever loved was standing in my front yard saying good bye. This was my life waving goodbye to me as I stared at it through the back window of our car and to think just yesterday I was planning my life in this town. As I watched the little town of Avon Park fade in the distance I watched my happiness and my memories fade as well. I guess it wasn 't going to be as normal of a day as I thought it would be this morning when I woke up and yet it started off just the same as every other day of my life.
I heard the simple sweet melody of Beethoven playing
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That meant it was time to start my long day of being a mother, sister, student, and employ for the local coffee shop. It was 7:20 when I finally stepped out of the shower and started my first job of being a mother and waking my brothers Alex and TJ up and getting them fed was the hard part. Everything after that was just simple reminders. We had become very efficient without my mother there she worked three jobs and went to school she only came home to eat and drop off money. After finally getting my brothers out of the house it was a long walk to school except for TJ my younger brother who went to school next door. Once he was at school I could take my part as sister instead of mother. My older brother Alex is only a year older then me so we grew up as siblings unlike the younger brother who knows me as a mother figure not a sister. The long walk to our school wasn’t so bad when I got to be a sister because it was like being a child again and that 's not a pleasure Alex and I had very often. Most often the time was filled with questions about school or maybe even relationship advice but my very favorite was when we talked

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