Personal Narrative: How My Mom Changed My Life

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Growing up, I was lucky enough to be surrounded by so many strong, beautiful, and independent women who helped shape me into the person I am today. One of those women was my great Aunt Jackie. Aunt Jackie was the person who watched me when I was little while my mom worked, she was the person who always had a bunch of toys at her house for all us kids, she was the person who started my obsession with weird shows, and most importantly, she taught all the girls in the family to be strong. When I was 15, Aunt Jackie had told us she was diagnosed with breast cancer. When I was younger, I didn't particularly like my family that much. Any time we all got together I would just get so annoyed with them all and I would beg my mom to allow one of my …show more content…

Eventually I made myself stop, and told them I was going back to bed. I'm not an overally emotional person and I hate crying, especially in front of other people. I went back to my bed and I can't remember if I contuined to cry on my own or not. I remember being angry and upset for a really long time after getting the news. I was angry because it wasn't fair that Aunt Jackie had been diagnosed with cancer in the first place, it wasn't fair that she had passed, none of it was fair and at 16 years old I was more angry then I had every been. This article isn't about the emotional wreck that my family and I were after hearing the news. This article is about how Aunt Jackie was so strong before and during the time she had cancer. This article is about the most stubborn, amazing, smart woman who went through one of the worst things in this world. I honestly don't think my mom, my sister, and I would be nearly has hard headed as we are now if it wasn't for that woman. I was truely blessed to have known her. Aunt Jackie never told me with her words how to be strong, she told me with they she handled her own situations, with the way she went through life, the way she fought cancer until the very end. She changed my life for the better and if I could just say one more thing to her, it would be that I am so incrediiably thankful for all the amazing things she taught

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