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Personal Narrative: I Am A Liberal Family
Small town, middle of nowhere is what it felt like, but so big at the same time. My eyes couldn’t see past the city limit being so young. Waking up to the fresh smell of the National Beef plant was always pleasant. Looking around and seeing nothing but Mexicans made it feel like that was the only race. I loved the fact I was around all my family. I have a lot of relative’s so there was always something to do. My dad was busting his butt day and night working at the beef plant. My mom sold insurance so that was decent. I was very little and didn’t know much before we moved. As a kid, I never wanted to leave all my family behind and start a new life somewhere else. Even if it was only four hours away. I would always tell myself that I was going …show more content…
I now realize that’s just not going to happen. Growing up I did start to realize what Liberal was. I loved it for the family but even then I started to not care as much. Liberal in my eyes now is a trap. They have this beef plant for many immigrate workers to come work for them and they it gives people an opportunity to make decent money. That’s kind of how my family was. We felt that we couldn’t leave liberal. That sense my dad was making money and we were all around family all day we had no reason to leave. I do thank my family for making that choice to get out of liberal. Sometimes I wonder why most of my family still lives there. There’s so much to see and experience and there stuck. In Liberal Kansas. It’s safe to say my opinion of Liberal has changed a lot. When I come to visit Liberal now it does feel different. Everyone is older now. I’m a lot older now. For me, being around so much family as a kid made me go the opposite way growing up. I went to New York for the first time by myself. I stayed at my friend’s apartment because he had an internship at a law firm at the time. Just seeing all the people and big buildings around me made me realize there is so much more than Kansas. More than Liberal. My opinion of Liberal has changed as I got older. I will always have sentimental memories there. Im now not afraid to leave from what I'm used to. For now I feel that I want to be as far away from normal and what I'm used to because I know theres so much out there to
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