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Personal Statement : ' Dearest '

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When I was around 13 years old, I noticed changes in my parents and how they acted around each other. I knew something was different. It felt cold in the house. I just thought they had problems going on, and that it wasn 't that big of deal. One day I had just come home from the last day of school in my 7th grade. I checked the answering machine for new messages and I found what I had least expected - a message from my mother 's divorce lawyer. Even though all the warning signs had been there, I was still surprised. Things were bad between my parents, and my mom had already threatened to divorce my dad once that year. They started going out on dates again afterwards, though, and I thought they were past all that. Before …show more content…

I thought that she was doing that to get back at my dad, but I didn’t really care because he didn’t he come and visit us. Sometimes my dad would come to me at my Dugsi, but I would ignore him. He would say, “Hi” to the kids and leaving after giving them some money. The next time he comes i would tell him, “Stop giving the money to make them not hate you later”. He would tell me that i was seeing things wrongly, but I didn’t care because either way he wouldn 't tell me why he didn 't come home to visit us. I know most of the details and that my parents were in the process of divorce but around them acted like i didn 't know anything. I would treat both of them like strangers taking my anger out on them, but at the same time not showing them I was angry. Nothing felt right. If I was told to do something I would just do it in motion and go to my bed. I stayed In my bedroom most of the day, and came out to grab a bit after everyone went to bed. That summer my mom saw that there was something wrong with me, and decided that I should stay. My mom would talk to me sometimes, and ask me stuff that I didn’t want to hear like if I wanted to go shopping or go out and eat. I would just tell her that I wasn’t feeling well, and didn’t feel like going anywhere. My mom didn’t about me know about the divorce, but she knew that something was wrong so to the fact that dad wasn’t coming home like usual. One night I overheard my mom talking to me, and telling him

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