Like Grandfather Like Grandson

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Austin Swindle Tuesday October 2, 2012 ENG 101 Like Grandfather Like Grandson Growing up I was raised by my mother and my two grandparents, grandma patsy and grandpa Joel. My mom being a single mother worked a lot trying to provide which left me to be taken care of by grandparents most of the time. I was extremely close with my grandfather. We would do almost everything together, whether it was watching TV, him taking me to school, and even getting outside and teaching me how to play catch with the baseball. He taught me how to be a young man, and without him I wouldn’t be the person I am today. My parents had gotten divorced when I was three years old. My mom ended up getting full custody of me, but I was able to see my dad basically whenever I wanted but usually every other weekend. My mother who was just finishing college at the time needed additional help to take care of me. She hated the thought of me being in a day care all day while she was at work, so she called my grandparents and asked them if they would come out to Arizona and help out with me. At the time my Grandparents lived in Anaheim California and were just newly retired. A week after my mom made the phone call they had packed all of their belongings and moved out where we were, Phoenix Arizona. It didn’t take very long before we had gotten a house together and moved in. My grandfather and I had always been close but I was extremely excited that we were living together because we could become even closer. Not really having a father figure around all the time, I was almost attached to the hip with him. Every day during the school week we would ride our bikes to school and after school was over he would ride his bike back to pick me up so I wouldn’t ride home alone. When we would get back home I was to do one thing and one thing only and that was my homework. After my all my homework was

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