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HOUSTON
Growing up in a place that’s population consist of more cows than people, lets you live slower and simpler life than in big cities. I lived in one such town until I was fourteen years old, and I thought that life was boring. All during my childhood I wanted to move to a big city so when my Mom said, “…we are moving to Houston.” I was thrilled. I thought that living in a big city, like Huston, would be more glamour and fabulous than small town life. I thought it would be like a movie, everything is magnificent after the girl gets to the city. I found out the day I moved to Houston that I missed my childhood home and that living in the big city was not a fabulous movie but a scary nightmare.
The foremost reason that I disliked Houston, was I had no family there, and I realized this the very second that we pulled into Houston.   When I lived in my small town I had the whole family around, for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and even those times when they would showed-up and you just wished that they would go home. I have an unusually large family because everyone has lots of children, I am one of eight, I used to joke that the only thing in a small town to do was make babies. I didn’t know family meant so much to me until the day I moved to Houston with only my Mom and new Step-Dad. I missed my family by the time that we reached Houston, I wanted to talk to some of them, but couldn’t because the phones were with the movers that were coming the next day. The very first night that I slept in Houston, I spent it in a new house, a new bedroom, and most of all without any family.
I had heard prior to moving, Houston traffic was bed to drive in, but I didn’t think about it much, I wasn’t old enough to drive. After arriving, but before going to bed that very first night, my Mom and I went to the store to get some essential items, mainly food, we were all hungry. The store was very strange, there was hardly any bread, water, or anything that we needed but Mom bought...