Personal Narrative: My Immigrant Family

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I come from an immigrant family, that currently lives in City Heights. An urban inner city, in a small neighborhood surrounded by alleys. I have two older brothers however I’m only living with one. Unfortunately the oldest one is separated from us living in Mexico. For my parents they both come from Mexico and for my luck I only got the chance to know one. This one parent was the only person I needed in my life. Influenced by her back then as a child really impacted me in a positive way, making me a stronger person. Today she still has a great impact on me as well as my older brother who is 21 pushes me to do my best in everything I do. My whole childhood from five to twelve years old I grew up in a small part of Chula Vista in the U.S.

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