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Personal Narrative: My Step Father

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When I first noticed my Step dad had problems with drinking I was about eleven years old during the time. Though I must admit it wasn 't a healthy place to be at the time I was living in Phoenix,Arizona with only my step dad 's family nearby to call and my mom, of course but at the time I couldn 't really expect help from her, at the time she was heavily addicted to gambling. Anywho it wasn 't a very healthy relationship. Though I was never physically abuse or anything like that I was emotional abuse having been a first born and having had a very shielded childhood. I was shocked of what was going on in my life when I turned twelve I decided that I wasn 't to live with my dad and his girlfriend. By the time I was fourteen, though i had hit a

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