Narrative Essay On Paycheck Life

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Growing up living paycheck to paycheck is a lifestyle that I haven’t experienced but came pretty close to it. Growing up on the north side of Amarillo is something I will never forget. My family and I weren’t poor, because my father worked his tail off to make sure that our family had everything we needed, and a couple of things here and there, while mom was trying to finish up school to be a nurse. The neighborhood was not an ideal place to raise kids. There were restless nights were I would wake up to the sound of gunshots and screams not knowing what was going on. We constantly had stuff stolen from our property, from bicycles to garden decorations.
The tipping point for us to move was when my best friend's father was shot four times, in

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