Personal Writing: My Autobiography
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November 16, 1982 is a special day to me. On that Tuesday
afternoon at 4:09 p.m., I, Amanda Marie Burns, was born in Bedford County
Hospital, weighing in at seven pounds and five ounces. My mom and I
spent my first week of life in Shelbyville, Tennessee, where my paternal
grandparents lived and ....
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maternal grandmother, and I often stayed with my aunts while Mom and
Grandmother worked. When I was four, Mom got remarried, and we moved to
Jacksonville, North Carolina. We lived in a duplex for six months, just
long enough for the three of us to find a house. Then we moved only five
miles away to a place I could finally call “home.” In August of 1988, I
started kindergarten, at Swansboro Primary School. In October of that
same year Mom gave birth to my sister Kira. In 1990, t ....
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