Personal Narrative: How My Mom Changed My Life

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My mother was unable to complete school because she had me at nineteen. I have never met my father, so since I was in fifth grade at age eleven, my two younger brothers and I were brought up by a single parent with a boyfriend of hers here and there. When I was in sixth grade at twelve my mother got injured from work and she had a boyfriend at the time which my mother, my two younger brothers and me moved in with. The brother that’s closest to my age is three years younger than me and we are super close, thick as thieves tight, there was nothing I wouldn’t tell him, he would know things my mom wouldn’t. my mother grew really close to her boyfriend to the point where if I shared things with her, she would tell him, even private things. I didn’t

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