Personal Narrative: Surviving Conflict

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Originally, I am not a person to confront a conflict, unless the subject is extremely important to me. The majority of the time I will avoid conflict. My sister and I get along fairy well so the rare times we do argue surprises people. Around two years ago, at a friend’s house my family meet some of their animals, the chickens standing out the most to my sister and myself. After we left we talked about them but didn’t think about getting any of our own until a month or two later. We started researching all we could about them so we could be prepared for the day when we got our own. When the plans were finalized and things became more concrete much to my surprise my surprise my little sister wanted nothing with the idea, that we both worked

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