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Personal Narrative: Moving To Kansas City

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I slumped into the couch, not knowing what to think or where to go from here. I was still in shock. Well, not really. The writing had been on the wall for a long time, I should’ve seen it coming. Even then, it’s still hard to swallow. My parents were trying (and failing) to calm my brother down, who was still crying uncontrollably, all sorts of feelings and emotions gushing out of him. Just moments ago, my dad had us sit down. I knew it was coming. It was the same way that he had us sit down for near-miss in the summer. “We’ve decided to go forward with moving to Kansas City.” That was something that I would always remember. One side of me was sad. Very sad. Why wouldn’t I? In just a couple months, we’d be packing up and moving away from anything and everything that I’d ever known. The other side of me was cautiously optimistic. We’d be moving to a town that was most likely be nicer than the current, and there was a chance our lives could be better out …show more content…

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