Personal Narrative: Dads And Divorce

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Life is truly a wonderful thing. So many great things as well as bad. However, it is what people make of it. Whether or not they choose to be happy and enjoy it is all up to them. My parents getting divorced taught me that life is too short not to be happy. My parents got divorced when I was only two years old. Since, I was only two, I did not know what was really going on. It was not until later on that I realized the effects on me. When I was old enough to understand what actually happened all the other kids in my classes would talk about their Moms and Dads and what they had done together as a family I, could not relate. Then when I was three years old my Mom started dating a man named Bob. At the same time my Dad started dating a woman

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