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Personal Narrative: A Conservative Catholic Family
I come from a very conservative catholic family in Peru. In my country families tend to be really closed, but mine is specially united. When I think of family I do not think only of my parents, but rather on them, my grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. Since I was born I have lived with my parents in my grandparents house, which has had a huge influence on me. This is because the fact of living with elder people made be involved always in deep intelectual conversations with people that are older than me, that is what developed and propelled my intelectual curiosity. Also, I do not have siblings, however I am so close to my cousins that I might call them as if they were. They have influence me as a person by not letting me be too immerse
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