Rough Childhood Research Paper

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My rough childhood had a very big impact on me as a child through out my childhood. I grew up in a small town called Selma Ca was about 5 or 6 years old and was going to Garfield elementary school. I was living with my grandpa and he could hardly support me and him it was only us to I have a biological sister but I only met her once in my life we had got split up when we were very young she got split up living with her step dad and step mother currently living in Ventura Ca and I got split up living with my grandpa in Selma Ca. I had been living with my grandpa most of my childhood because my biological mother had been very sick she had been going in and out of the hospital because she was diagnosed with Huntington disease so she was going in and out of the hospital for …show more content…
Terrible news came from my grandpa and that he had told e that my mother had passed away that morning with Huntington disease that was the worst news I have ever had in my life it was very tough on me I was so scared how to move on with this big impact on me with my mother passing and I was scared to because the disease runs in my family a lot of my family members had passed away from it as well my grandpa wife passed from it and my sister might have it so I am so scared that I might have the disease. After all of the bad things going on I was in 5th grade and I remember that I was at the after school program and a cop came to my school and came to pick me up and took me to the police station I was devastated and very scared I did not know what was going on so he took me to the police station and talked to me about more terrible news that I was going to be in foster care because a incident happened with my grandpa. When they had told me that I was going into foster care I literally fell down into tears I did not know what was going to happen to me or where I was going to

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