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Throughout my life I've had a lot of friends that I've had to say goodbye to. In elementary school, I had a group of friends that I'd spend a lot of time with. One of them, seen in the photo above, moved to Virginia Beach in middle school.

It's not like I haven't seen her since then, but of course, I don't get to see her quite as much. She used to live in my neighborhood, and I could just hop through the yard behind mine and walk across the street with my friend Annie (who lived behind me at the time) to get to her house. I miss them both a lot!

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Right now, things are looking great. I'm doing well in school, and every day I get closer to my goal for the end of the semester. I've been given the chance to earn something unbelievable! If you didn't know, my favorite animal is a bearded dragon, a kind of lizard. And I've always dreamed of owning one.

Well, this year, my parents have decided to get me one with the requirement that I have all As and Bs by the end of the first semester. I've been researching and planning and asking for the necessities of the lizard so I'm prepared to bring them into my home. I'm really excited, and I'm working so hard to earn this!

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The picture above has already been used in this project, but I hope it's excusable. The photo is of my Aunt Danielle and my Uncle Brian, who is my father's little brother. They got married two years ago, in Disney World, and ever since then, my aunt has wanted to have a kid. To start a family with the man she loves.

Well, this year, my family got the amazing news that she was pregnant, and would be delivering her daughter in January of 2022. We're all so excited, and I can't wait to have a new cousin!

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My mother and father, and my mother's friends, Kristin, Stephanie, and Peter.

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Unfortunately we don't spend a whole lot of time with my mother's family. We used to travel down to North Carolina, the state where most of my family lives, to see them, but my mother's relationship with her family isn't quite perfect so we tend to spend less time with them.

But family doesn't necessarily have to mean by-blood, and my mother has friends that she's close enough with that our family has started to see them as family as well. We go to their houses for holiday parties, and we invite them to things, and we spend a lot of time with them.

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My father's family spends a lot more time with us! We go to their house for Thanksgiving, the holiday that happens to be my grandmother's favorite, and we go to his parents for Christmas! Me and my brother actually go to my grandparents' house a lot, just to spend time with them or to take a lift off of our parents for a weekend.

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Obviously one of my favorite people in the world happens to be my little brother Christopher. He turned 13 this month, November 16th, and he is going to have a party this following weekend. He's very into history, and learning about different wars and battles, and learning about weapons. He is incredibly smart and he's a nice person to have a conversation with! He's also obsessed with Doctor Who and Star Wars.

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Our family has two dogs and two cats! My cats are named Bossk and Mars, and my dogs (seen in the photo above) are named Luna and Chopper! We have had Chopper, my first dog, for a little over a year, and we just got Luna this year!

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I think the part of my family that I'm the closest with would be my more immediate family, followed by my father's parents and my father's brother Brian.

They're the people I spend the most time with. I see them for holidays, we drive down to their houses for holiday dinners, my grandparents come to celebrate our birthdays.. They're the most important part of my family in my opinion.

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My Aunt Brandy, Uncle Josh, and my cousins Madison and Gabriel.

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A lot of my family comes from close friends of my parents.

For example, one of my father's college friends and his wife are known as "Uncle Jared and Aunt Erin". Their daughter is known as my little cousin.

Another example is my mom's friend Brandy. I haven't seen Aunt Brandy for a good while now but I will be seeing her this December for a Christmas dinner event at my church, the event they have every year.