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My mom started with a story of one the time she had to move. She was in her Sophomore or Junior year of High School and she was in a summer camp. My grandmother came and took her out of a amazing church summer camp because of a "family emergency". When she got home her mother told her to pack as much as she could in two hours; then she left a town she had lived in for 2 years without even saying goodbye to anyone.
My mom drove down to Chico, California, a place where she had lived before, and she had to make a choice; she had to choose to go back to her old high school and be the old shelley, or go to a new high school and change who she was. My mom chose to change. She went to a new high school, she connected up with some college kids from the church, and she changed for the better. Since she made that decision, she was led to my real dad, leading to me.
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When we first moved here to San Jose, the first thing my mom did after unpacking was she baked some cookies and she went the neighbors houses and talked with the neighbors. She talked with the for hours, talking about where we used to live, she talked about us, her kids, she talked about my missions trip, and etc... now, our neighbors say we can go in their backyard any day we want, and we can go swimming in their pool. My mom mind boggles me.
I think both these anecdotes, with some added details (dialogue, description of the places), will make a good case for your mom being an outgoing, adaptable person. They happen at a specific time and place, which is as it should be- but your third anecdote (the next blog entry) kind of falls into the generalizing category. Also, in your second paragraph here, you allude to your mom being led to your real dad, but don't elaborate on how changing schools accomplished that.
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