My Divorce-Personal Narrative

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About the beginning of second semester in 6th grade, my parents started arguing. A lot. At this point, I really didn’t know what would happen. I would say up until the morning hours listening to them yell at each other. They eventually divorced and it negatively affected my sister and I when it first happened. It was the first time me or my sister have gone through something yet, but with me, being older and more complicated, took it a lot harder. The divorce had me a little bit confused, not knowing what would happen next.

A couple of weeks into the divorce, my mom moved out of our house into an apartment complex. This sucked even more, because I spent the weeks at my dad’s house, but the weekends at my mom’s apartment. It was pretty bad at the apartment. It got to the point where I had to call my dad to come pick me up. I eventually stopped going to my mom’s apartment and staying at my dad’s. My sister stayed at my mom’s house still, but she eventually stopped as well.
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My sister and I started to get along more, and my dad had more money to spend. My mom eventually came over to eat or something, but that was only occasional. I could tell my dad was doing a lot better with his work and work related things, and at this point we were all back to normal and used to my mom not being around. I still felt sorry for her at certain points, but I felt a lot of emotions through the divorce, so I honestly didn’t know what to

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