Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Being Literate

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Being literate in something could always benefit you in some way or another. I used to think I wasn’t literate in anything because I would start something new and move on to something else It was never the fact that I was just quitting it was just that I got bored and didn’t want to suffer through it and my mom was okay with that, she told me to find something that I liked and made me happy. Then I realized that with everything I did I somehow always learned to do it fast and I settled with the fact that I am best at learning new things. When I was younger I played the sax in 4th grade, and then I played piano from when I was 4 to 7 and, I was also an avid reader. Reading was my favorite. I loved graphic novels, mysteries and adventures.
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