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Storytime: Best Childhood Memories

Jasmine Martin
2 min readAug 12, 2024

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When I was a child me and my mother moved a lot, we lived in midtown Manhattan.

That was her first apartment then she moved to Parkchester in the Bronx, then to Virginia and when I got in my early teens she moved to Jersey.

Before we moved out of New York I was always with my grandmother, and

when we moved out of New York.

I would either go stay the summers In New York with my grandmother or go stay with my dad in Massachusetts.

When I would stay with my grandmother my mother would take me to New York and drop me off.

If I would stay with my father sometimes, he would drive to come get me or he would send for me by putting me on a plane by myself from Virginia to Massachusetts.

Summers with my dad was okay, he would always try and make it fun for

me taking me to Disney world or different amusement parks and take me shopping.

He would also take me to see his mom and his sister, but I felt like I never really had one on one time with him.

It was always other people taking up his time if not my grandmother or my aunt it was his Wife and her kids.

I always felt like the stepchild when I would go to his house around his wife and her…

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Jasmine Martin
Jasmine Martin

Written by Jasmine Martin

I write to express myself. Born to be real, Not to be perfect 💎

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