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Personal Narrative: Leaving Grand Rapids
Leaving Grand Rapids will be the greatest decision I will ever make in my life… Or so my conscience told me that It will be. I’m presently torn apart with the choice I made, yet I was hoping that I could mend my emotions quickly. To clearly explain my position, two sides of my inner voices are battling right now; One is saying that I should stay – since Michigan was the place I stayed most of my life; It was the only locality in which I made a bunch of lively and depressing moments that were meant to be remembered. And the other told me to reside with Dad so I could make it up to him for the time that we weren’t together.
Both of my parents broke up 4 years ago and I decided to stay with my mom, Rebecca. It was for the sake of Dad who was intensely affected by the divorce negatively. He told me to stay with her at the time, nevertheless Dad also told me that I could reside with him anytime I want to. And I thought that this would be the best time to do it; he particularly needed comfort as he showed signs of depression when we talked on the phone a few months back.
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He was helping me put my bags in the car’s trunk all morning. Tom was once a geologist, but he dropped that position and decided to become a high school Physics teacher. He has a scraggy build, almost that of Shaggy from Scooby Doo however he’s incredibly tough & shouldn’t be belittled. He’s conjointly tall, very talkative and likes to go hiking intermittently.
He’d urge me to go with Mom every time, howbeit I didn’t want to join them in contempt of the fact that I have an impaired balancing even though I’m part of my former school’s volleyball team; but I join anyways because he’s Tom. Nobody could ever say No to good ole Tommy.
“I’m so pumped for Texas,” I say, busting out the taciturnity between us.
“Meh,” He replies

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