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Personal Narrative: How Divorce Changed My Life
"Can you guys come in the dining room for a minute?" As my face turns reddish and my stomach feelings like it is turning inside out, my stomach has never felt the way it felt that day? On just a day like no other I could not even believe that this had happened. That just a few words could have such a strong meaning, these words felt as if the world had been crashing all at once. This had felt like a nightmare, it stills feels like one to till this day, and I just have not woken up from it. I tell myself every day "everything happens for a reason" but I just can never seem to understand even after four years later what that reason was for. Why did this have to happen? I was only twelve years old, and when your parents tell you that they will no longer be able to be together it is the hardest thing to take in and think about. …show more content…
There has been so many negatives and positives within these four years. It seemed to be a lot harder on me rather than …show more content…
When I was first told about my parents divorce it was in the summer so it was somewhat okay to deal with until school came. It was a lot harder to focus on my grades. A time came when I just did not even care about my grades. I just did not care about a lot of things anymore. I felt like nothing could ever get better, like nobody understood what I was going through. Almost as if there were no reason to try anymore especially in school. Eighth grade until the end of freshman year had been the most difficult years for me especially in

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