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Personal Narrative: My Life Is Better Than Debt
As I grow older I realize more and more each day how scarce money really is. If one wants to acquire money effort is required and this effort is not always easy to muster when one is receiving an education. One of my hopes before graduating college was to avoid a reliance on federal and private loans. However, things do not always go as we hope so now I am in debt even before starting my life as an independent adult. There is nothing more saddening to me than debt because for most of my life my mom has been in debt in order to provide for me and my sisters. I hope that once I graduate from college I will get a good job that will allow me to pay my loans quickly and in full so that I can help my mom pay her loans and allow her to relax for the
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