How To Write A Narrative Essay About Growing Up With Siblings

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Growing up with siblings there was never a day your sibling and you got in a fight, either because you got something they didn't or they get the better stuff etc. Only childs don't really have that problem they usually get what they want and don't have to share toy or clothes with someone else. In my case it was different I am an only child to my mother Joanna but grew up with three boys, my cousin Ricardo the oldest of the boys he is just one year younger than I am we did many things together. My aunt and her family moved in with us in a small, old and clutter apartment back in 2003 my cousins and I had to share a room for two years. We were raised by our grandmother she taught us to always tell the truth because that showed people we were honest and trustworthy.
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I had asked him how much money he had and he told me he had 80 dollars but found 60 of it on the ground. I didn't believed him so I went and told our grandma that he had taken 60 dollars out of my cow bank. When my grandmother asked him where he had got the money he told her that Brian had given it to him, Brian was our upstairs neighbor and Ricardo’s really good friend. I told my grandma that he had told me he found it in the ground and now he changed his excused. My cousin started to get nervous and start to like stutter like in movies when they catch someone in a lie.
My grandmother was so mad she made him return the money but grounded him for lying and stealing, she did not let him go play outside from two whole weeks for us that felt like being locked up in jail. She gave him a lecture about after someone lies they don’t trust that person anymore because they don’t know if they are telling the truth or not. Trusting someone is hard especially if you know they had lied before. In our family honesty is a huge deal in our family cause it show what kind of person you

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