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Personal Narrative Essay

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It’s my opinion, immovable objects and unstoppable forces should not get married. When I was nine I didn’t have a personal concept of what divorce meant. I had an “it could never happen to me” mindset. By December of 2010, it was official, I was now from a broken home. I found myself part of two very different households, both of which have shaped me into the person I am today. Splitting my time between my parents, both very important people in my life, was stressful. Part of the challenge was logistics, like sorting the answer, “where do I keep my favorite pillow”. It was a special challenge because my parents turned out to be different types of people. I’m not ready to declare one was better than the other, they were like the left and right hemispheres of a brain. Let’s say my dad was the left hemisphere, and my mom the right. My dad was logical, calculating, and analytical. My mom was aware, intuitive, and compassionate. These two separate households prioritized and rewarded different behaviors and virtues. Because of these reward rubrics, I had to develop skills to help me navigate the tests of these teen years. Among the different skills I learned, there was one quality that was common between the two. It was the virtue of tenacity. I describe it as the fierce refusal to give up; to never quit even when all seems lost and forsaken. My personal tenacity was sculpted by my two houses and three distinct examples. For the first example, I offer a view into

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