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Personal Narrative: My Mother's Ideas About Marriage
Jamail Reynolds
Mr. Atkins
English 097
10/29/2012

My Mother’s Ideas about Marriage and my own
My mother and I get along pretty well, and the reason is because we have a lot of respect for one another, even though we don’t have respect for each others ideas. We still show each other respect, but we still argue about are beliefs. So for instance, we don’t agree on the same beliefs about marriage, and we express our ideas of getting married very differently. Now my mother thinks everyone should be married, which isn’t right, so if theirs an adult over the age of twenty-five who isn’t married, my mother tries to find someone for them and in her eyes no one is a citizen, a complete person or even a respectable human being,

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