Personal Narrative: Where To Live In California

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Something important in my life was when i went to go live in California for a year. It was special because I grew up in New Mexico all my life. California was very pretty and fun. We lived about 2 hours away from an ocean. We went to the beach a lot before school started. My mom wanted to move us out there because her boyfriend wanted to do school out there for fixing cars. We lived in Sacramento the state capitol. I went to natomas middle school. It was the biggest school i have ever seen it had three stories to it and to complexes. It was really scary at first because i had never been to Sacramento and i know absolutely no one. All the people that i met there were nice but some weren't at all. There was many ethnicity groups of asians,

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