Personal Narrative: Moving To Austin, Texas

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Here I sit, staring at the beaming light of my family's computer writing an essay at the nineteenth hour of the day. I’m not complaining after all It’s quite relaxing, with a bit of music as well as pure silence amidst the remainder of my parent’s residency. Considering myself a great writer is something I’ve never done, nonetheless I enjoy it.

I have been a Texan all my life, having been to a few parts of the country it remains my favourite state. Austin, Texas is my birthplace I lived there for the first ten years of my life, six years ago we moved to San Antonio to enable visiting my outer family circle extra often. Through the move, I always thought we were going back to Austin sooner or later, but it was a sudden adieu to a place

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