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Personal Narrative: Growing Up In The Dominican Republic
But there is one thing, that, my family don't know about me. It's that i became a man in front of them and they don't think about it!.
Do you remember when you become an adult?
Growing up in the Dominican Republic is cool, you become a man at 18 years old, but you still are an inexperienced teenager. You went from being a baby to being a kid, a kid to a teenager, a teenager to an adult and a adult to a senior. In the US is different.You have more time to adjust your life, create habits and become a good man!. Me, i'm just a teenager that is one long step to becoming a man - but i still having a lot of time to become a young man.

Turning 18 just changed my world. Being a teenager and changing into a man is not like a screw that you can

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