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The sacrifices made to get me here today My parent always made it a point of teaching me and my two little brothers to do what has be be done, no matter what the situation and giving was never an option. They never said this to us in words, but instead they taught us by example. They are constantly making sacrifices in order to insure that my brothers and I never go without. Their one goal in life was to insure that we were given a better life than they had while growing up.
After the death of my mom’s youngest brother my grandmother had a hard time taking care of the rest of her children. My mom somehow found her way into the foster system by the time she was in her early teens. When she was sixteen years old she leaped
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At first she worked things out with her ex husband by having joint custody for the good of her little girl. That is intell one day he never dropped her off at daycare like what was preplanned he instead chose to keep her all to himself. He knew from past experience with my Mom that she would roll over and give him what he desired. What he never could understand was that this wasn 't about her and what she wanted anymore (which was to run as far away from him as ahe possibly could), but it was about her daughter and the fact the she wouldn 't let her baby grow up in that sort of life. The court issued both her and the baby a protective order against him. So, he left to start a new family never looking back to see what happened to his little girl and never really cared.. My mom was left completely by herself to raise a baby, and knew that it was for the best for both of …show more content…
“I will never leave you” he told me sternly. “Promise?” I asked him hopeful because adults never break their promises. “ I promise.” He told me affirmatively. To this day he has done everything in his power to keep that promise to me and never plans on braking

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