Part one of term paper
November 16, 1982 is a special day to me. On that Tuesday afternoon at 4:09 p.m., I, Amanda Marie Burns, was born in Bedford County Hospital, weighing in at seven pounds and five ounces. My mom and I spent my first week of life in Shelbyville, Tennessee, where my paternal grandparents lived and where my dad spent his childhood. On Thanksg ...

Part two of term paper
... fireworks off the porch. He owned a fireworks stand which was named after me, Amanda’s Fireworks. I caught the flu when I was 18 months old which left me very sick. When I was two years old my parents got a divorce. This began a long series of moves for me. Mom and I moved to Knoxville to live with my maternal grandmother, and I often stayed with my aunts while Mom and Grandmother worked. When I was four, Mom got remarried, and we moved to Jacksonville, North Carolina. We lived in a ...