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Personal Narrative: My Obstacles In My Life

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Throughout, one's life they will encounter many obstacles that make them who they are today. These obstacles may be major hurdles or small puddles both negative and positive. My family created a major journey in my life that I am still on today. Starting back many generations ago all the way to modern time. My family owns and operates a farm that made me turn in the direction of agricultural. Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to pursue a career in agriculture, not knowing what shape or form. My whole life has been changed by this one decision I made including what I do after school and the classes I take. It has highly impacted what college I will decide to go to after I graduate high school. Overall, this one decision has impacted not just who I am today as a person but what I am going to do with my life.
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He was the son of my great-grandfather who created the Almond farm. He has always had a passion for farming since he was little and knew he wanted to pursue a career somehow in that field. As he grew up, he attended North Carolina State University and majored in Crop Science hoping to farm for a living. He soon realized that farming could not meet all the ties for his growing family. He soon married my grandmother and had three kids. They built a house down the road on a big enough piece of land to create a farm of their own. Kyle worked with a telephone company every day of the week and still found time to tend to his farm, that even meant working till dark. He was a very busy man but had a passion for something and strived to achieve it. If you ask him who he looked up to the most he would say his father. His father showed him how to start a family from the ground up. He also showed my whole family how to live and carry themselves throughout life even through rough times. Overall, Kyle took what my his father gave him a turned it into something

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