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My Father 's Life Changed My Life Essay

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My origin begins with my father, who is 61 years old and my mother, who is 59 years old. In addition, my eldest sister, Candice, who is 34 years old, I am 33 years old, my eldest brother, David Jr, who is 31 years old, my youngest sister, Chakira, who is 24 old, and my youngest brother, D 'Angelo, who is 22 years old. My life started in a small village named Chinapoo Village Morvant on the island of Trinidad. We lived in my maternal grandparents’ home with my uncle and us living upstairs and my other uncle, his girlfriend and their children living downstairs. My father never wanted to live in his in-laws’ home, but when they married in 1981, my grandmother was alive and my mother did not want to leave her; she passed away when Candice was 3 months old. In 1991, my home life changed when my paternal aunt died and left her five children without guidance, so my mother coaxed my father into moving to San Juan to raise her three youngest. In 1995, we moved to the United States of America and settled in Bolingbrook, Illinois to be around my maternal aunt who was just diagnosed with breast cancer. We also lived with her and her two youngest children for six months. My cousins’ fathers refused to allow my parents to adopt any of them, so we left them in Trinidad. My father was the senior pastor at a church in Chinapoo and my mother was the head Sunday school teacher, so the moved to San Juan caused some logistic issues because we moved to the remote countryside. It made simple

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