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people at that church that my parents were close friends with and a lot of those people watched after me in church. Later on in life, I got fascinated with Bible stories, I learned about how to have faith, I ended up joining a Sunday School class and learning interesting stories, and it has had a lifelong effect on me. I used to go to the beach every summer. The first few years of my life when I went to the beach, I used to have meltdowns whenever we would leave the beach. As I got older, I learned to tell time so my parents could give me warnings and I did not have meltdowns anymore after that. I loved routines rotating between the ocean, the pool, the lazy river, and hot tub. I always liked to go back to the pool after dinner for a few hours. If this did not work out, I often got angry with my parents. I always wanted to take just one more swim after supper while on vacation. My dad was the head basketball coach at Liberty High School when I was a kid. Whenever I would go to the games, the athletic director, my mom, or my grandmother and I would walk around at the games because I could not sit still. The basketball players were like big brothers to me. They would come over and eat with us, study for tests, and play with my toys and me. I also enjoyed going with my dad to summer camps. Liberty High School won the state championship when I was three years old and again when I was four years old. I used to love to play with my dad’s trophies after he won the state championship. My

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