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Personal Narrative: My Day In Florida

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After only knowing me for five days, a fifty five year old Peruvian women saw me butt naked and then fell in love with me. It was a hot summer’s day in Miami Florida, on June 4th, 2000. My family and I were tucked away in our cozy two story house with the AC blasting when my parents heard the doorbell. They calmly walked down the stairs as my three year old self curiously wobbled behind them. A lady with big puffy curly black hair stood behind the door. As my parents opened the door, Maria, my current nanny came running towards the door.
“This is Frida, Frida, este es Gigi y Randall,” Maria said. My parents stretched their arms to greet her as she anxiously shook their hand.
Maria had to leave us soon because she was pregnant, and could not take care of a newborn child while also taking care of my brother and I. Maria told my parents that Frida could replace her. My parents decided to see what Frida was like since they would be needing a new nanny.
The first day Frida met my family and me she worriedly told Maria,
“They can’t speak Spanish, I don’t know if I should work here.”
Frida is from Peru and cannot speak a word of English besides, “Hello, how are you.” Maria responded,
“Don’t worry, just try it out, they are a really great family.
Everything was going well for the first …show more content…

She ran after my brother who was hiding under my parent’s bed, and when she finally got him out from under the bed and back into the bathroom, I was out running butt naked too. After this day, Frida surprisingly fell in love with my brother and I, and we fell in love with her too. Even though she was being paid to watch after us, she wasn’t being paid to love us. She loved my brother and me unconditionally for the next sixteen years because she wanted to, not because she had to. Frida was not only my nanny, but she was my

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