Being A Mother: A Story Of My Life

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This is a story about my life and it starts before I was even born, and it starts with my mother. My mom got pregnant at the age of 16 and she really struggled financially so we lived with my grandparents for a long time and I grew up with my aunts like they were my sisters. But before I was born my dad was very abusive to my mother and got caught up with a bad crowd. He started doing drugs and that 's when I believe he started being abusive but even though he was the way he was my mother tried her best to deal with his stupidity because she was young and in love and didn 't want me growing without a father. It came to the point that he hit my mom so hard that my heart stopped well I was in the whom and my mother rushed to the hospital with my …show more content…
After many hours I was finally born and my mom told me that I came out smiling at everyone and I was just the most precious little thing she had ever seen. So years go by with ups and downs with the struggles of being a teen mother at this point I am just explaining what my mom felt and went through. So my mom worked many jobs to support me and her, despite the fact she was still living with her parents but they didn 't mind as much as maybe other families would have because they knew that my mom went through alot and was really trying to be the best mother she could be. So now i 'm about three years old and at this point my mother met my step dad jeremy, I consider him my real dad because my biological wasn 't much of a dad, but time went by and my mom and jeremy had lived together for awhile at my grandparents and had saved enough money to buy their first home and still be financially stable, they both had decent paying jobs and everything was going good for all of us. I 've always thought of my step dad as one of my best

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