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Change of places can be for a good or bad reason, but in my case was for the best for our family. Most couples, when thinking about divorcing are worried about their children, because everyone knows that divorce have some effects in children’s. In my opinion divorce is about loss and change. When my parents divorced it was hard for my younger brother and I. But was a change for the best of everyone. We moved to Hidalgo. Around this change of place, as result of my parents’ divorce, everything has changed, a new place to live, a new school and we had to grow up emotionally faster.
My life as many peoples had good and difficult times, but I have learned about life struggles. I was sixteen years old when my parents divorced. One night, my brother was in his room, and I was in the kitchen. Our parents told us to come and sit down in the living room. They had to told us something. We all were sit in the room, my Mom said “ your Dad and I “, my Dad interrupted her, “ are getting divorce”. We were in shock. The next day my Mom told me that we had to move. She decided to come here, because we can get a better education here. We came like three times in a month for shopping, and, to visit my aunts. But it was not the same. We had lived all of our lives in Mexico, so it was a huge change for us. At the time, when we came from Mexico, we were a little family: my Mom, my little Brother and I. It was hard because we did not have a stable place to live, we stayed with our aunt while my Mom found a place to live. Every day my Mom was out looking for an apartment or house to rent. This experience was completely new for us, we had our own house in Mexico, but my parents decided to sale the house, when they divorced.
After a couples of months; finally, my Mom found an apartment of two rooms. The first couple of months were the most difficult for us. We got in a new school, without knowing English. My brother and I, took ESL classes to help us to master the

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