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    Maitland Knutsen was once a friend but will always be a memory. Some of the fondest memories from my childhood involve Maitland. We enjoyed many summers filled with great adventures. Her friendship meant more than she could know to me and taught me that friendship can be found in ways we never once knew. Maitland, a childhood friend, has had a lasting impression on my memory of the past. The greatest of friends can be found right down the road. Maitland came to Iowa for multiple summers in a row;

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    I remember my childhood as if it were yesterday. Nothing was better than my closest friends. We Hanged out, fished, climbed the mango trees in the garden, Card games, board games, and even teased the innocent grocery store keeper. I didn 't want any new friends; I had no idea what the world had to offer. Life was a simple cliché routine. I invented a circle and trapped myself inside it. I made my own world and lived within it. I ultimately enjoyed every aspect of my childhood. Eventually, a lesson

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    Personally, thinking about my childhood early on when I was in the beginning years of school is generally a painfully awkward thought until I stumble on the idea of soccer. I don’t think I’m the only person who believes that but regardless of the experiences I went through, there’s one in particular that is the single most important in my life. It was the first soccer practice I ever went to. Stepping onto the grass field off to the side of a playground and joining the other four year old prodigy’s

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    Prenatal/Infancy This writer’s earliest knowledge of drugs or alcohol is of his grandfather. From information gained from his parents his grandfather drank regularly near him and his siblings. This writer has no memory of drugs or alcohol. This writers father was a heavy cigarette smoker, there was knowledge of cigarette smoke in the house because of the smoke smell. This writer also remembers that there was cigarette smoking everywhere. Not like now days where you can’t smoke in malls, restaurants

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    The only time I can recall my childhood memories is when I went to Vietnam with my family at age 10. I can remember it as it was yesterday. My trip to Vietnam was special to me. This was my first trip visiting my relatives from the outside of the world and created memories that will last forever. It was 5AM I haven't slept yet and my plane takes off in three hours. My eyes were wide open, my body was too eager to sleep or eat. I just wanted to get out of United States and explore the a whole new

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    their grandma's house. Great feasts and family gatherings play a part in everyone's grandmother's home. But when I really think about my grandma's house only one word comes to my mind: fun. A red brick house on top of a small hill is where my memories reside. A slightly curved gravel road led to the front of the house. Eight or nine rose brown apple trees randomly covered the plush green lawn. Down the small hill, muddy brown water trickled down a ditch with cattails surrounding it. One enormous

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    Puerto Rico held many of my most cherished childhood memories. The 3 years my family spent there were some of the best years of my life. I remember the day we arrived there and settled into a hotel to live temporarily. I wasn’t sure why I couldn’t understand my favorite cartoons anymore. A man with a daughter my age took me to school during the first week and I couldn’t understand that man either. My parents explained to me that they spoke Spanish and soon enough in school, I was learning the language

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    fresh laundry and baked good during the holidays. Where you made the best memories of your childhood, with you imagination with friends, and family? For me, I think of the stone house with the long driveway, trees all way down the curvy road. The smell of evergreens, and freshly mowed lawns. A bit of fresh pulled dirt on the sidewalk from pulling the weeds in the flower bed. A home is the place of love and childhood memories. The ones you never forget, even if you don’t enjoy them right then, but

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    long as I could remember. My dad was just a phone call every other day, but since my grandmother died from bone cancer he lives with us now too. I have a mutual relationship with everyone in my family, but I mostly keep to myself. My happiest childhood memories all involve my dog, Micchan, who I got when I was 8 years old. I had begged my mom relentlessly for my own dog for at least an entire year before she finally gave in and said yes. We already had

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    places/states: Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, California, Alabama, Connecticut, Oregon, Canada, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Haiti, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, Kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Michigan. I have had many childhood memories, but my favorite is probably a vacation whenever I went on the longest road in the U.S. It goes from Chicago to Los Angeles. The road is called Route 66. We drove on most of it but near the end we headed toward California and went camping

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