Improve English Speaking Skills (Real life story in English) Learn English through stories

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so do you think we have always lived  in this beautiful and expensive house
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yes of course well as far as I  remember we have always lived here
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then you need to hear this story pay attention
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I want to talk to you about a very sad event in  my life something that I could never forget never  
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it's hard for me to tell this  story but I'm sure you must know it
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it happened many years ago  
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I had told you before that my parents  got divorced when I was only a child  
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I was 10 years old the separation of my parents  affected me a lot but not in the way you think
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I mean I was not sad because my parents got  divorced they had been fighting too much and  
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I had to see that every day my siblings and I had  to watch them fight all the time it was horrible
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that's why when they decided  to get divorced I was not sad  
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but what really affected me was the fact that  my brothers and my sister and I had to separate  
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two of us could go with my father  and the other two with my mom
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I was very close to them we grew up together  we always played together and also cry together  
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when my parents fought I was happy being with them  that's why it affected me a lot when we went apart
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anyway my father stayed in my house with my sister  and my younger brother and my older brother and I  
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went with my mom to live to a different place  we rented a room in one of my mom's friend
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but we didn't have much money I remember my  mom used to pay 50 dollars a month or that  
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room it was more like a favor I think because the  owner of the house was one of her best friends
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soon we have to move to a different place because  that house was too small for the three of us  
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we were growing up and we need  a room for me and my brother  
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so we moved to another house  this time it was bigger
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but we could only stay there for a year because  after that the house was going to be sold well if  
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there for a year and then we could take a piece of  a land near there many poor people used to do that
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it was a group of poor people living in that  place it was like a mountain there we had to  
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sleep on the floor at first because we didn't have  a bed or furniture we were really poor remember
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we had to live there in a very small place with  four walls without a bed or furniture we didn't  
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even have a kitchen or a stove so we had to buy  food from a place which sold food at a low price
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I remember it cost one dollar soup main dish and  fruit it was not delicious but at least we could  
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eat something we had to go there every day on  time otherwise they could leave us without food
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anyway we had many shortcomings but we were happy  I mean I had my brother by my side and I used to  
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visit my other siblings every week it was not the  same but at least we could play together sometimes  
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while we were living in that mountain  my brother and I made a lot of friends  
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we used to play together all the time every day  
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my mom used to get mad at us because  we stayed out playing until night
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but we were happy anyway soon the side directive  I mean the people who were like the presidents  
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of the town where we were living had to make  an inspection they had to check some things
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they had some rules that we had to abide by if  we wanted to live there the main rule was that  
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if you wanted to live there you wouldn't have to  have another house or your own house you get it
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my mom didn't have her own house the other house  where we used to live was my father's and he  
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stayed there he was living there so I thought  now we are not going to have any problem right
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so we did not care about that matter my mom used  to sell medicinal herbs natural things to heal  
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people or help them with some sicknesses she used  to work in the market a little far from our house
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we had to help her every day I remember we used  to wake up very early every day we woke up at  
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four in the morning because we had to go with her  to buy some products to sell four in the morning
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so we used to take torrents I mean My Brother and  Me one day my brother and the next day I was in  
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church of going with my mom to buy those things  it was very tiring but we had to do it anyway
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our routine was in the morning we had to  help my mom with the products she used  
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to sell in the afternoon we went  to the school and in the evenings  
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we had a little time to play with our friends
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one day I came back from a school I  remember that day very clearly it was Friday  
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I got to my mom's little store  and she was crying I asked her  
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why are you crying what happened  tell me but she didn't answer
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then she told me we have to go to the house  right now come with me let's go I didn't know  
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what was happening I just told her okay let's  go but calm down tell me what's going on here
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she didn't answer she just told me to hurry so  we went running to our house my mom was crying  
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all the way home I just wanted to know what  was happening but she didn't tell me anything
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when we got to our home I got it I understood  what had happened my house our home was not  
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there anymore it had disappeared there was only  a rubble where our house was supposed to be
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I was shocked I just stood there without saying  a word it turns out that we had been evicted  
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they the leaders have just destroyed our  house and it was all my father's fault
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these leaders had gone to  visit my father to his house  
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there they asked him about my mother  and he said that she was still living  
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there with him and that that was still her  house too because they were still married
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my mother collapsed and broke down  in tears where our house used to  
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be I was there consoling her hugging her  telling her everything was gonna be fine  
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of course everything was a mess at that moment
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after that we just moved to my father's house  my mother took Revenge by throwing him out  
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of his house that's what he deserved  it was too mean to my mother and us  
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but that's another story  I'll tell you some other time
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the thing is that we haven't always lived in a  beautiful house like this we have to go through  
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difficult times get this house to buy this  house we had to work hard and do many things
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that was very interesting I want to  know how you came to buy this house
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sure I can tell you but that would have to  be in the next video that's all for now I  
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hope you liked this story if you could improve  your English a little more please subscribe to  
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