Personal Narrative: On Moving 1, 400 Miles

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Dominic L. Knisely
T. Goldman
ENC 1101
18 September 2015
On Moving 1,400 Miles According to the Miami New Times 64% of the people living in Florida as of 2012 were not born in the sunshine state. As of July 20th, 2015 I became a part of the majority in this tropical peninsula. I am originally from another peninsula, but to identify it as tropical would be ludicrous. Michigan, from its people to its climate, shaped me to be who I am now. For eighteen years I was surrounded by all the family I had ever met, friends whose parents were friends with my parents, and fresh water most often in the form of snow and ice. Even though I have made countless decisions, moving to Florida is the biggest decision I have made thus far because I left my friends and family behind, I left the environment I was familiar and comfortable with, and chose to pay out-of-state tuition for one year. …show more content…

My aunts and uncles were all no more than a ten minute drive away. When I was growing up I knew my cousins as my best friends. On the weekends it was my cousins who I was playing video games with and going outside to build a fort out of tree branches. The one thing my family could be most known for is their generosity. My family would sooner sell me a car for next to nothing than trade it in for a new Cadillac, and so they did. Today, their generosity and love is still felt from so far away. I have started to make a few friends here and maybe one day I will end up selling my car for next to nothing to one of these Floridians. If so I look forward to the

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