My Family-Personal Narrative

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On September 12th, 2001 my brother Austin and I were adopted by my mom and dad at the courthouse in Dubuque Iowa. My parents first told me they weren't sure if they would let them adopt us that day because of what happened the day before which was the horrific 9/11. But they did end up adopting us that day. I was almost three years old then and my brother was almost four years old.
The neat thing about me and brother is that he is my biological brother and we were adopted by the same family. The family my brother and I were adopted by was of course Mark and Brenda Litka. They were foster parents of two girls and a boy who were also biological siblings. there names were Jacob, Joel, and Jackie who was the oldest. I have recently made contact
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My brother Austin is going to be 18 this November. So soon it will just be me and my parents for a year then I will be turning 18 and starting out on my own I'm not sure what I really want to do yet but there is still time to think. I did want to be an athletic trainer but I changed my mind from that now I was kind of leaning more to carpentry. I'm drifting more to carpentry because I love working with wood and I'm actually kind of good at it.
My brother works down at Thompson trucking as a diesel mechanic. I really think he likes working down there. he likes the environment and he likes his co workers. He is always happy when he gets home from work. when he is happy that makes me happy because he has been there for me since the day I was born.
My dad worked at john Deere as an engineer for 42 years before he retired three years ago. He worked in the skid steer area. He actually has a couple patents out on tractors right now. He sat in an office all day and he didn’t get home until 530 every night. I remember going on a couple tours of the factory too it was such a big place they had there own water treatment plant and there own power plant. There is a gym and a basketball court in the

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