Personal Narrative: If I Lived In Salem, Tennessee

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Her name is Jenny and she was born in Salem, Oregon and raised in Monmouth. She has 5 kids and is 36 years old. She is 5 foot 2 and she likes to shop and Doesn’t have a job but she is supposed to start one soon. She is a stay at home mom who does everything around the house. She didn’t want to do the interview at first but I convinced her that they were not personal questions. We met at my house at around 4:30 and I started to ask her questions. She was a little nervous about doing this interview. I knew that she was nervous because every time she answered you could hear it in her voice,” No I didn’t go to college because, I had a kid at 19 and when she was one I was thinking of going to college and at 20 I had another kid. So then I knew

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