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Personal Narrative: My Migration To Canada
After, my family and I moved to Canada. My grandmother doesn’t really want to came with us, so she just wanted the stay in Taiwan. Because of the cold weather in Canada and the new place for her, she can not get used to it. The summer of 2013, I went back to Taiwan to see my grandmother, I had not seen them for a long time. However, when I have seen my grandmother, I could not believe my eyes. The strongest woman that I have have never seen, she was exhausted physically and weak as she gets older. One day, she went to the hospital to have a body checked. The doctor found out that she had a liver cancer, which is a very serious illness. Due to my grandmother cancer, her body slower to serve and doesn’t have the energy to communicate with us.

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