Personal Narrative: Business Is Poppin

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“Business is Poppin”
Hi, my name is Lauren. Here’s how my life got better, eventually… My parents were never really together they have for the most part always just been best friends. My mom had two kids before me a boy, who call my Brother and a girl who I call my sister. As young one my mother got in trouble a lot, she moved to Oregon to live and hopefully learn to behave. Oregon is where she met Jim. They were high school sweet hearts I suppose you could say. At 18 she had my brother, at 20 she had my sister. They moved back here to Utah after my great grandpa passed away. Jim and my mom they started to fight and they broke up. 5 years later she met my dad and 12 months later I was born. Forever changing their lives. My mom worked at an airport and my dad sold houses. Honestly they were both great at their jobs. But they weren’t great at staying together. When I was 4 from what I remember they broke up for real this time. My mom lost her job couldn’t care for
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My dad spent a lot of time working. Pretty much every day I would hear on the intercom that after school I had to wait in the office for my dad to pick me up. I never waited too long maybe 15 to 40 minutes I started to hate school. My mom moved and so I switched schools to a charter school. Which by the way is a lot harder than public school. My dad had this bad habit of moving in with girlfriends that he had only known for a few months. I hated them and I was stubborn but they were crazy. When we had money people used my dad. When we didn’t have money his “friends” vanished. The economy wasn’t doing so great, people couldn’t buy houses and that sucked because my dad sold them. Me, my dad, his “girlfriend” and her 3 year old daughter moved in to my grandma’s basement… She, Jennifer helped me a lot with school but my dad was always stressed out about work so they fought a lot. Also Jennifer was a little crazy. By January 2010 they were

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