Personal Narrative Analysis

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I placed myself at this point on the scale because the time I was born was a period my parents had to face the most difficult economic. They had no land; no money and nothing accept the small house where we lived. My father had to go to work for others and my mother stayed home for taking her children (one was 3, another 2 and I). So, I and my two older brothers to live in a status lack of food, milk, and clothing. My mother said, there were days, my father could not find a job, so we had no money to get food and milk and we just ate rice only. For me, my mother was not enough milk, so she had to cook rice and took water rice feeding me instead milk. My mother told me that my family had to live in this situation for a long time.
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