The Unforgiving Change-Personal Narrative

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The Unforgiving Change
Have you ever felt like you were in a dream? That's how I felt about the middle of 4th grade when my family found out what happened about 5 years ago. Unforgivingly my life changed forever and I will never forget this experience.
The song began to play while I was in my mom's white truck with Aleesha, Peyton, Colton and my mom. He would sing "Honeybee" by Blake Shelton to me when I was little because I was his honeybee and his little girl. Aleesha, Peyton, Colton, my mom and I were in the truck on our way to my Aunt Renee and Uncle Eric's house because that is where we were staying for the time being. My mom, had her eyes fixated on the road when, out of the blue, I began to interrogate her, "Mom, where is my dad?" She had a startled look on her face and she jolted back to look at me with a red face, no answer.
"Mom, did you hear me?" I muttered quietly.
Sympathetically she answered me, "Yes."
"Do you know?" I questioned with a puzzled look on my face.
"No! I am sorry!!!" feeling bad, I thought she was going to cry.
"Is there something wrong mom?" mused my older sister.
Her face beet red and burning up she accidentally yelled, "I don't know!"
Then we all got silent as my aunt and uncle's house came into view.
We were all focused on the cop car as we slowly
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Bawling my eyes out, I dug my face into my mom's shoulder. I thought that I was crying for a few minutes but now realize that I was crying for a few hours. When I finally quit pressing my face into my mom's shoulder and looked up, I realized that I was not the only one still crying. All my siblings were spread out among the three recliners and two couches that were carefully placed in my aunt and uncle's spacious living room crying right along with me. I got up and went to Mallory, cuddled up in her lap in the biggest reclining chair, and we cried as we were cuddled up to each other until we fell

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