My Personal Hero

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PERSONAL JOURNEY

“Death may end a relationship with a person,but it can never take the memories away of that person”.This quote I can relate to with the loss of my uncle and how although he may be gone from this world now,he will still be remembered through everyone's memory.To start off my first time that I met my Uncle Jesus is for my 5 or 6th birthday,when he had bought me a bike,and other items.It was during that day that I knew he was going to be the “cool uncle”,and that my connection with him was only going to get better and better.

When I finally got to meet him other than when he came to visit was during vacation when my family and I went to California,and although the trip to his house was hard since he lived in the north by Sacramento.I

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