Personal Narrative: Death Of A Parent

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At age seven, my dad lived in the same household as me, and he consumed a lot of alcohol. When he was intoxicated, he would become angry with my mother. Proceeding, he would verbally abuse her. Imagine as a child witnessing your father undermine your mother, I was afraid for her safety and often cried to myself as I played my guitar; my only escape as I watched him throw a beer bottle in

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