my life story by cassie battles when i was living in the ukraine, the people were poor. sometimes...
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My Life StoryBy: Cassie Battles
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My Life Story
By Cassie Battles
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When I was living in the Ukraine, the people were poor. Sometimes there was not a lot of food. Most people who were wealthy used to taunt the poor. Sometimes, Christmas was one of the most horrible days for the children.
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My experience as a child was somewhat sad, but not all was a loss either. When I was born, my mom had thyroid cancer. She was happy, but something happened to me at birth. I had a stroke, and I was as white as a ghost.
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A couple of months passed, and at the age
of twenty two, mom passed away. My dad’s heart was shattered.
So at the age of twenty-eight, dad
disappeared. I went to an orphanage because
all of my family members disappeared
too.
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The orphanage was small and very poor. Boys got
treated like kings, while the girls were punished. The
boys slept upstairs. We all had hand-me-down clothing.
We had to sleep on a cot, and the ladies were so mean.
They made us do work. We were only children.
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We ate nothing but soup and other small
items. We were treated like animals. That was
only the first part of my early life.
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When I was in the orphanage, I didn’t know
my mom had another child. I was so happy to
find out that I had a brother. My brother’s
name is Audrauios, but now his name is Tyler. My
name was Iryaina and now my name is Cassie.
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In 2002, when I was five years old,
something was going to
completely change my life. The mean ladies told us to line up into four groups. WE were scared.
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That’s when I met some new people.
The first family said, “Ewe! That girl doesn’t have any
hair.” My brother looked like a polar
bear, because he was a chubby child.
Luckily, the second family loved us and took us home to
America.
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So we traveled by plane and flew to America. At first, I
thought Americans were going to be like the Ukrainians “Mean” and
Rude.”
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Luckily I was mistaken.
Some of the Americans were not mean. I found the
perfect family, and I have some great
friends now.
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Thanks for Reading my Book! Cassie Battles is a sophomore at
Lawrence County Career and Technical Center.
Her home school is Union Area High School, and her shop is
Computer and Office Technology . Cassie loves computers!
SHE IS DEDICATING THIS BOOK TO HER BEST FRIENDS, KAY
LYNN WESTON, CHRIS ANDREWS, AND ALEXA
BRANDON.