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How My Grandfather Impacted My Life
The Big Impact Throughout my life I would say my grandfather had the biggest impact on my life. My grandfather taught me valuable things, whether it was insignificant or significant he taught the things to me. I know some things that he taught didn't make sense to me until now I finally understand why he did what he did to help me later in life. I really am grateful that I had the chance to spend as much time as I did with my grandfather, as it really improved me as a person.

The first thing he taught me was how to do was how to cut the grass. I know that learning how to cut grass may be a silly thing to teach someone to do, but you wouldn't believe that not everyone knows how to do it. It was always a certain way he wanted it done, rather it be high and thick or short and thin,it had to be cut the same way every time. I didn't understand why but, if it wasn’t cut the same way throughout the front and back yard, he would make me redo it all. That's almost 2-3 hours of cutting just grass, and it’s tiring work. I had fun making those simple mistakes just so I can spend a little more time with him, I would say it was worth it .In all I wouldn't say what he did was
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He use to always tell me when I was younger ¨One day you will change someone's life forever. Rather it will be a big change or a little change their life will not be the same¨. At the time I didn't understand what he meant, but I never forgot those words. My grandfather and I use to always watch sports together rather it was tennis, soccer, golf, swimming, etc. we always watched it together. We did almost everything together even down to the smallest things such as sitting outside together, and he always found away to make those moments special. No matter how small those moments where I come to find that they all were precious in so many

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