Personal Narrative My Little Sister - 1696 Words

I remember the summer my little sister, Alexis who was 16 at the time, came to visit me from South Carolina. I was working on Naval Air Station North Island at a placed called FRC Southwest at the time. The day after she arrived for her visit, she woke up at 5:00 a.m., groomed herself, ate a small breakfast and met me in my car at 6:15 a.m. to go to work with me. She did every day for the first two weeks of her two-month long visit with me. One day while we were in my office I asked her, â€Å"Wouldn’t you rather stay at home and sleep-in instead of waking up at 5 in the morning with me, just to go to my boring job?† She replied, â€Å"I rather be sitting here at your boring job with you than to be sitting at home alone bored in that too quiet house, where the only company I have is my thoughts. 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