Discuss And Activity, Interest, Experience Or Achievement In Your Life That Has Meaning.

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The most beautiful smiles are the ones that have struggled though most tears. The perfect family for me was far from reach as I grew up I was without a father for two years, I’ve always known that people make mistakes but being forgiven for them was a different story. I’m not sure how it started but my dad decided to walk out when I was 9, I remember looking at the door as he left thinking another long day at work. I’ve always wanted to be “daddy’s girl” the one who he took shopping and held on his shoulders at county fairs no matter how close we weren’t I still thought my dad was amazing. He came back into my life when my oldest brother turned 13 somehow he knew it was his Bar Mitzvah and showed up I looked at him much like he had become a stranger to me, to my life. We welcomed him back into our family and now he is trying to become the man he wished he could have been. He missed my dance recitals, my first cheerleading competition, and those first days of school where he and my mother had video taped me walking out the door onto another chapter in my life. He is trying so hard to be all he wasn’t and I idolize him for that he made a mistake, he learned, now he has a lot to catch up on. He took me shopping the other day and we went to the fair together for the past four years in a row and each time we go into a small photo booth to take a picture and he tells me, “Smile Ashley, you’re beautiful.”...