Personal Narrative: Adoption

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In 2003, when I was born, noise everywhere, loud noises of me crying and me hardly able to breath.
2005 was like pothole when you get stuck and something bad happens, my parents got divorced and the good part is when you get out and find out that everything is okay.
Then in that same year my sister and I to be put in foster care with two other people,we then had to clean the bathroom with the lavender scented cleaner. In 2007 Lilly and I were almost put for adoption. Before we were almost put up for adoption our grandma and grandpa came all the way out to Colorado to pick us up in the same year. In 2008 I broke my arm riding my bike the day before first grade started. In 2009 I almost died due to carbon dioxide poisoning when I was

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