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Personal Narrative: Moving To Texas
Being born in Oregon, meant that I was surrounded by family. Both of my grandparents lived within an hour and a half from us and my cousins were only thirty minutes away. I went to a small church, which just so happened to be my school, and I lived in a small town. I had all of this until the fateful day when we moved to Texas. Moving to Texas was gave me a completely different outlook on life. I was coming from a place where the average temperature was about 75 to a place where it was warm all year, including the winter. In Oregon I was able to experience all four seasons; spring, summer, fall, and winter, but Texas only had three: summer, winter, and August. I loved my life in Oregon with my friends and family, but my new life in Texas had

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