Comparative Essasy - Comparing

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Even so, my mom always loved to slap me with the dreaded, "I'm telling your father when he gets home!" Then she would hit me with the stories of her youth.
My father's stories showed how reckless my father had been growing up. He told me many stories about going to Florida. He said he would often pack up and go to Florida when he was about eighteen years old. He recalled a time when his friends were going and they asked him a day before if he could join them. He said he woke his father up at two o'clock in the morning and told him he was on his way to Florida. His father was mad! "You woke me up at two A.M!" he hollered, "how much money do you need?" "Nothing", my father objected. "Then don't get arrested" his father warned and rolled back over.
My mother's youth was much different. Her mother died in a car accident and her father left them. So, they went to live with her sister, who was much older and married. They were poor. My mom taught me about 'mayonnaise sandwiches', ...

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some good punishments. My father never got really mad at me for bad things I sometimes did. Rather, he always had a funny comment for every situation I got myself into. Like his father telling getting mad that he woke him up at two AM instead of caring that he is 18 years old and leaving for Florida late at night. My father would give a witty comment during an argument. One time he had seen my grades were slipping. He took my driving permit and held it up like he was about to rip it. "How are your grades going to be next quarter?" he asked. Again, needless to say, my grades were a lot better the next marking period.
My mother's worst stories always came crying out when we got into big ...

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