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My Life Of My Family

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The past two years have been the hardest in all of my seventeen years of living. Choosing a topic is both easy and difficult due to how personal it may become. However, the highlight of the past two years belongs to my family life, and the actions of a certain former member that has affected the lives of many in my family. This person was in my life for over a decade up until around May of 2016, where the year truly kicked off for the family. Let’s call her Jess. For over a decade, since she was in her late teens, Jess has been in a committed relationship with my sister’s father (we do not share the same father, but he is essentially family to me). My sister's father is a shady guy, who does shady things. Currently he is incarcerated, and the incarceration that occurred over a year ago, even prior to the early events of this story, brought the worst out of Jess. Jess and my sister’s father, we will call him Joe, have two kids, who are eleven and four years old. In short, these kids were definitely not raised in a proper environment. While they were not harmed in any way, the parents were neglectful and they did not receive proper basic treatments such as the right foods, basic hygiene and clothing necessities. Despite the parents being present for most of their lives, it was almost like they weren’t, as my sister and my sister’s aunt had raised them both the best. Which makes sense as to why they are both under custody by their aunt, due to their mother’s disinterest in

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