Personal Narrative: A Long Time

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“It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” A long time ago when i was a little sixth grader, my aunt died at a young age. It was so hard on everybody in my family because it was so unexpected. We knew she had a hard past but she had gotten better and had been changed for a while. It took a lot for our family to get through it, and it took a long time but we are slowly getting better. It started when she was a little girl. She had a hard time staying healthy because her asthma got the best of her, and it seemed like she was constantly getting over pneumonia. When she was young she made some bad choices, got into drugs and ended up leaving her girls and went to prison for a few years along with her husband.
Once she got out, she decided to change. For her and for her girls, because they were very young and needed their mother. She had a hard time staying healthy as it was but because she was a horrible smoker and made some bad choices, it made it ten times worse but she had it under control enough to handle it. She started to feel sick again, so she went back to the doctors to get antibiotics. They gave her medicine and told her that she was fine and to go home and get some rest. Little did they know that the next day she was gunna up and die on all of us.
Her oldest daughter, who was 17 at the
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They were way to young to be losing their mother like they did and that alone had a huge impact on my family. Now that I’m older, and i see how hard it was for my family to get past the fact that we were never going to see her again, I realized that we could overcome anything as a family. It sent my grandma into a horrible stage that she is just ow snapping out of, my dad just now went her grave for the first time since she died, and her daughters are still struggling but learning how to live around

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