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Personal Narrative: A Good Time To Break-Up North

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When I was younger I spent my summers up North in a little town where my family had a cottage just a few blocks away from lake Michigan. I do not remember a summer that we didn't go up North. The town has perfect beaches, the best hikes, and the cutest stores. When my parents told my brothers and I that they had decided to sell the cottage I could not believe it. When they told us that in two weeks we were going up north for the last time to clean the cottage up and to meet with a realtor I was even more upset. “Why? I don’t understand,” I asked my mom. “Because you and your brothers are getting older and we just don’t have the time to maintain it anymore, so we thought this was a good time to sell it. Anyways wouldn’t it be nice to go somewhere else on vacation for a change?” my mom explained. …show more content…

I kept thinking about how it was the last time we would take the five hour drive up to the cottage. Usually I was excited on the drive, thinking about the great summer we were going to have, that might of been the first time I was sad going up North. When we got there it was harder not to think about how we would be spending our last weekend up North packing boxes. I was dreading packing up boxes, but I hate to admit, packing the boxes up was a little bit fun because I found things I had forgotten or lost and it reminded me of all the good times we had over the

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