Personal Narrative: A Day In Boone County

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It was a warm, summer day in Boone County, West Virginia. I was just a kid at the age of four at the time. I was living with my mother, and we are going to court for some reason. It was in Charleston, West Virginia and we had to be there by six o' clock. I did not know what was going on until my teen years. I never understood why we went to court, but the next thing I knew was that I was living with my dad. My dad lived in Wyoming county, West Virginia, but instead of living with my dad, I lived with my grandma and grandpa. Once I started to live there, I knew that this is the place for me.
Living at my grandpas was breathtaking. The place it was at, the stuff they had, the people that lived near there, it was astonishing. On November 30,

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