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Personal Narrative: Were Immigrants Of Ghana

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My parents were immigrants of Ghana coming into this country. Like many children of immigrants they gave birth to me here so I would have easier access to an education. For the first few years of my life, due to all the efforts my parents had made years before I was born, I had stability. I hadn’t known this was a luxury until my parents had divorced. Being the tender age of 4, I was yet to understand what was happening or why my daddy would never come home. When he bothered to show up, I would become so clingy, holding him ever so tightly. Little did I know that I was yearning for the stability to come back. I subconsciously made a promise to myself that I would obtain stability and I would find it in myself that time around. The divorce

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