This is the story she wrote for English class, April 28, 1993, and received an A-. The story was based on true facts but there are some events and names that have been changed. The ending of the story is one that made sense to her but is not real. She wrote this story as if it was me telling it (through my daughters eyes).
Legacy
My mother did not want the same orderly life her mother had lived, in the same orderly kind of a house. A house that a good New England family had lived in generation after generation. A house of smothered emotions stifled beneath creaky iron armor called etiquette. She wanted something more. That’s why she went to New York City. Against family protests Mom enrolled at New York University instead of a New England college close to home.
Upon her arrival in New York, Mom…
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Dec 22, 2014 @ 06:46:12
What a beautiful story, I just wish the ending was different. Great job.
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Dec 22, 2014 @ 06:51:55
In real life it was 😀
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