Personal Narrative: Out Of The Shadows To Somewhere Peaceful

Out Of the Shadows To Somewhere Peaceful
My official birth certificate states that on November 25, 1998, at 11:46 a.m., I was born to Gracie Rangel and Eleasar Falcon. My place of birth of was in Mercy Hospital in Fresno, California. After my birth I went home with my mom. Since I was a child I couldn’t quite remember much of what happened. But I do know a few years after me, my sister, Gabrielle was born. My mom and father weren’t married so my mom left my dad. My mom said that my father refused to stop acting like a teenager and smoked weed and drank all day instead of acting like a father to me. We moved to Idaho and lived with my maternal grandmother. Just that same year my father kidnapped me and moved back to California. Well that’s what I guess it was legally called because I was taken to California without permission from my mom. I would spend days with mom and others …show more content…
We would go back to Idaho to visit my mom’s family we left behind when we moved. The one summer vacation I sort of remembered well was family reunion. My maternal grandma’s mom was having a week long reunion. Each day of the week was planned out. One day we went to a barbeque and swimming the canals. Then to a water park. There I met so many family members I didn’t know I was related to. The day after the water park we went to a my grandma’s mom’s house to celebrate. Her house was really big and had a really big lawn. The kids were running around everywhere playing with each other. On the last day of the week long celebration, each family would take pictures. When all the pictures were done and over with, we went to my grandma’s house to spend time with her before we left. We had our own barbeque to end the day great. After we said our goodbyes, we were on the road heading back home. And since that summer we haven’t been able to go back so we spent summer at the house with the family we had