Personal Narrative: My Parent's Divorce

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The biggest problem that I have ever faced was my parents divorce. My mother and father split up when I was three years old. My mom gained custody of my brother and I. My mother had custody of us until I was in the second grade. This was when she decided to give up custody to my dad since she was moving to Arizona with my step father. My mom and step father lived in Arizona for about four years until she decided she wanted to move back. A year after my mom moved back she tried gaining custody back. The court left it up to me to decide whether I stayed with my mom or my dad. At the time my mother was in poverty and could barley afford a place to stay in. My step father could never helped to support my mom. Him and I never really got along.

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