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Moving to North Carolina
The best investment I ever made was moving to North Carolina from New York. I lived in New York until I was 24 years old. Where I came from wasn’t all that great. I lived in the projects in NYC, and it was rough. My son and I had to go through times when we would hear gunshots and yelling and fighting every night. It was September 1995 when I made the decision to move here. Even that was hard, because I left my mom not knowing if she was going to be around for another five years. But I knew I had to leave because it was not a good place to raise children, in my opinion. Once I moved here it took approximately one year for me to get married, get my license and purchase my own home. When I left New York I had no ambition, but once I moved here I got a lot of ambition to further my education, get married and purchase a home. If I was still in New York I don’t believe I would be this far. So to anyone who thinks that prayer and persistence don’t work, I am certainly a witness that they do work. Grycel Butts |
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