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Personal Narrative: Five Year Old Ryan

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How would five year old Ryan view eighteen year old Ryan? There are no guarantees, but I can assume that he would not recognize me if he could only see my goals and aspirations that I have today. Even if I look the same today as he once did and have the same demeanor he had, this boy is not the same person I am today. I am a product of my experiences, not his genetics. When he was five and his dad’s Air Force career was still young, Ryan enjoyed a life of relative stability. He had moved twice already but was too young to remember the places he’d been. He knew he was good at school, but did not understand its importance nor was motivated by it. Looking only towards the next day, he had no idea what he wanted to be when he grew up. Ryan was
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