Personal Narrative Essay: The Worlds Strongest Bond

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The worlds strongest bond In life everyone has one person they have a special and deep bond with that they don’t have with another person in the world. Sometimes no one knows for sure how or why this happens but after it does happen you’re glad it did. My special bond is with my grandmother and I don’t think there is anyone or anything else in this world I cherish more than her. Our bond began since I was a little kid and still gets stronger today. There’s so many memories that I have made of the years with my grandmother and I don’t think there is anyone else on this earth that I care or love more than her.
When I was young my grandmother would always babysit me and my cousins while our parents worked. While she would babysit us she made
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I came home from a weekend at my dad’s house and when he dropped me and my brother off at my mom’s house he came in, that didn’t happen very often so I knew something was up. So when we got in my mom and dad sat me and my brother down and proceeded to tell us that our grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. I don’t think I have ever cried so much in my life, at the time I thought that when someone got cancer they were going to die very soon and I didn’t want my grandmother to leave me so soon. It was the worst feeling I have ever endured and I don’t ever want that to happen again. So after I found out about her cancer, I started to see my nan change after going through chemo and it killed me to see her be so weak. Its life changing to see someone who, when you were younger that you thought was a superhero be so weak and ill. After a couple years she beat cancer and was in remission, that I got that news I was the happiest I have ever been knowing that she was strong enough to beat cancer. That night I was also thinking that if she I strong enough to get through one of is not the worst thing in the world, I’m strong enough to get through anything I put my mind and heart

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