Personal Narrative: The Biggest Pain Of Moving

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What is the biggest pain of moving? For the past nine years I have live in the same house in a warm, little neighborhood, but now it is time for a change. On a one thousand degree day, directly after volleyball, my parents called me into the living room. Still, I had no clue what was going on! My parents told me and my brother Grayson, who has autism, that they will be getting a divorce, It seems like things will be changing around here. Tomorrow, I ask my mom , “Where do you want to move?”, she quickly says , “We have a few options, Bella Casa, rent a house in this neighborhood, or we could move to a different city,” I went on the internet later that day to see what each option was like, but I really would not want to move to a different

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