Moving Out Vs Being Evicted

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There’s a difference between moving out and being evicted. Moving out is wanting to leave a certain place, being evicted is the opposite. You have to pack all your things that you've collected over the years, baby clothes, books, movies, and the memories.
I just got home from the last day of tenth grade, sitting on the couch talking on the phone.
The door opened and my mother walked in yelling at me to clean my room, not mentioning why. I told her I have all summer to clean it and continued talking to the person on the phone. She yelled at me some more and slammed the door. I told the person on the phone to hold on because I was gonna talk to my mom about what’s happening. When I walked outside totes were everywhere and my grammie, My mom

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