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Personal Narrative: My Decision To Return To School

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Close to the end of last year I made the decision to return to school to make a career for myself. At the age of seventeen I was a high school dropout. I never thought I would need an education, how wrong was I. Now fourteen years later I am a single mother, going back to school, and working full time hours as a CNA.

I am now a single mother at the age of twenty three my world changed forever. On a Friday morning in March of 2009 I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Being only twenty nine weeks pregnant I went into labor eleven weeks early, I was scared to death. What in the world was I going to do with this amazing gift God had sent to me? I had no education and no stable job, much less anyone to help me or show me how to take care of another human being who would depend on me for everything. I was all alone, far from home and scared. …show more content…

It is now that I realize how important it is to get an education. At this point in my life I have more responsibilities, which makes it hard to attend school full time and juggle taking care of a child and working full time. I am determined to get my degree to make a better future for myself and my

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