Personal Narrative-Home

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Prologue

I hate being adopted. Not being adopted in general, but mostly because the parents I ended up with at the age of 8, are awful. You see, I’m Japanese and have chinese-american “parents”, and, in case you haven’t heard before, chinese families are strict. Both my parents are constantly on my ass about every little thing. I don’t mean “clean your room,” I mean “Scrub the shower,” “clean our room,” “organize the bookshelf in alphabetical and numerical order,” “shine all the shoes,” “organize the food.” All of that and more, without error. If I make even one mistake, the consequences are awful.
Around the first week, when I first began to live with them, I had to organize the cans of food in the kitchen. I dropped one, and it popped open. I bent down and peered inside it, only to find that, instead of food, there was money. My “mother”, Lelia, and her husband, Quan, had been hiding money inside some of the cans they left for me to organize. Lelia, came in to see me looking inside the can. She immediately, grabbed my arm, dug her nails into my skin, and pulled me close. …show more content…
“Quan!”
I could hear his footsteps rushing toward the kitchen. They were loud, and banging, against the hard floor. Then, I saw his thin body, sweep into the room. Quan was muscular and he looked fairly young. His eyes were dark and kind of creepy, and his hair was slicked back. I saw lelia pull me over to him, and then whisper something in his ear. The fact that I didn’t know what was about to take place was

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Ciara spent the rest of the day trying to figure a way to be free from Deaglan. It then dawned on her; she would have to do more than just show appreciation and pretend to have interest in him. She figured that she would have to do favors for him and bring him presents. Then, once he trusted her and let his guard down, she could make her escape. She was not a very creative person, but she knew how to follow directions and recipes. She figured that she could bake him something as a gift. Ciara…

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I walked into the store and within 60 seconds Mary Ellen gracefully could see that we were needing assistance since I was already in the middle of the store. She was very calm, nice, and from how she spoke I could tell she knew what she was talking about. I explained I needed a sofa for my short old grandma who was in need of a new sofa because her recliner is too hard for her to use now. I also explained I was here to buy on behalf of my grandfather who was also very old. She offered a power type…

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Nolan Blackwood had been a queasy kid for as long as he could remember. In fact, when he was six years old he’d broken his nose and had nightmares for at least two years about the blood pouring from his nostrils. Despite this, he loved to help people. Medicine fascinated him, and how the body reacted to it fascinated him even more. Everything in his mind rejected the idea of seeing blood, touching blood, but his strong morals definitely beat the fear out. So here he was, his first day as an official…

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I close the door behind myself without taking my eyes off him. He gestures toward his bed. “Sit.” I cross the room and drop everything in my arms onto my open backpack before taking a seat. From this angle, I notice something hidden in his lap. I can make out an envelope, but the second item is purposefully concealed from my sight by one hand. I brush my hair over one shoulder and fold my hands in my lap. If he’s going to play coy, I may as well join in. “About what you said last night,” I prompt…

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As I wake up and plant my feet on the cold wooden floor, the smell of daisies and daffodils fills the air. I'm so grateful for the abundance of flowers arranged around my studio apartment. Without them, the place would reek of sewer rats and dump trucks. It is highly questionable why my roommates and I chose to live in such a smelly place, but there is no place we would rather be. Although at times it gets crowded with three of us living in a small apartment in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, it…

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I wake up, all ready to go, I get out of bed and look out the window. The sun yawns as it rises over the houses, I hear the SQUEAL of little mouses. I stretch real big before I leave, I can’t believe it’s not Christmas eve. I exit the room in my new golf clothes, I walk so silently, no one knows. As I reach the bottom of the brown stairs, I hear my stomach ROAR like a bear. I walk to the kitchen and smell the ‘cakes, I see my dad making green veggie shakes. I sit down to eat my burning hot meal…

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