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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
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Life

Submitted by youngsta on November 21, 2008 - 11:05.

Over these past two years my life has changed around a lot. First of all I do not have any family where I am living rights now. What I call my family is my cousins and my uncles. I have not one blood related family in Vermont. My father does not live with us, he lives in L.A with his new baby’s mother.

My immediate family rights now is my mother and two brothers. They are everything I have right now. I love my mother more than I love my father. My mom works hard she is an accountant for a clothing salon. She is both a dad and a mom I can go talk to her about my problems. My mom wants nothing but the best for me and my brothers. That is why she moved us up here cause if she left us in L.A we would either end up dead or in jail.

My mother is a strong independent woman, she is raising three kids on her own, With no help. She is raising us in a respectful manner. I see how some people talk to their parents, a way I would not talk to my mom. I treat her with respect, she is all I got, and she has raised us better.

Lately I have been taking the wrong road. I know for a fact If my dad was around I would not be doing the things I am doing now I mean I would he just wouldn’t find out.
I plan on moving out of VT as soon as I can. It is fun in the summer, but when the winter come, it gets depressing. There is nothing to do but to get your self in trouble. My plans for the future is set try to get into a college in a different state. When I leave Vermont I do not plan on coming back. It is like a third world country, it is just too small for me

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