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Personal Narrative: Ethiopian Community
It is by giving back to the community that raised us that we truly understand that we are part of something bigger than ourselves. I loved the Ethiopian community I lived in and I was always the first to give back to the community, given the chance. But the community I grew up in wasn’t the best in the slightest. It was filled with sick, homeless people on the streets waiting for death to do them apart. It was a havoc of garbage that resulted from accumulated littering; it is to be said that the people in the community didn’t care at all about the environment they were living in.
Seeing all those things in my community was really upsetting for me. I grow up in those neighborhoods, and nothing has changed at all, in fact things are getting

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