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Personal Narrative: College Tuition

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Growing up in a household sustained solely by one parent’s income was always challenging. My mother earned a decent wage, but my stepfather worked in an auto detailing shop, which was nowhere near lucrative in rainy Washington State. I only became cognizant of my family’s financial standing when it came to discuss financing college. Unlike most of my other friends, my parents didn’t have a college savings account waiting for me and they didn’t have the funds that would be needed to pay my quarterly tuition. This matter-of-fact conversation occurred in 2008, during my Junior Year of high school, and it was extremely disheartening. This issue was exacerbated by the fact that my parents’ joint annual income fell right above qualifying for Federal

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