Personal Narrative: Her Grandmother's Life

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as she was playing with the town dog, she remembered her parents and brother, and immediately started crying, but her grandmother was always there to comfort her. Not long after, her parents sent for her to come live with them in America.

After the plane landed in the big apple the only thing the little girl could think of was seeing her family, and what made her even happier was the sight of snow for the first time in her life and how it felt on her body.

As she grew up, life got harder and harder, especially after her father lost his job and got addicted to cocaine, but things got even worse when her dad set fire to their house with her mother in it, luckily nothing happened to her with the help of her neighbors. That affected the little

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