My grandfather's house in Grantsville, Utah. ... The vines that grow up the sides of these houses are clinging on for their survival. ... The house is covered with weathered, light brown bricks all the way around. There is a stairway consisting of three stairs leading to the white painted door with a rusty name tag reading "Wilder.... Walking into the house, cold air hits like a ton of bricks. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When my mother and I arrived at my grandmothers" house, which is where my great grandmother had been staying, my aunts, uncles and cousins were there. ... When I went to her house she used to let me use the sewing machine, and I thought that was the neatest thing in the world. ... "Who's that coming down my stairs, Who's that coming down my stairs, Who's that coming down my stairs, Is it Heather or Nancy?" She would see who was coming down the stairs and would insert their name and then use someone else's name that was staying there for the other name. ... But whe...

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• Grade Level: High School

During the summer vacation of my 9th grade, I was spending time with my grandparents at their house in Moga, Punjab. ... As I rushed down the stairs, I could feel the knots in my stomach tighten. ... My parents wouldn't be able to reach my grandparent's house in time and my grandmother was succumbing to her fears. In our part of town, no doctor makes house call. ... First I called a cab to the house. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Id barricade my door shut every night, the only times I would leave my room was to go to my friends house, school, or to get dinner. ... I quietly snuck down the stairs, and out the door with what felt like a thousand kilograms of luggage on me, I stood outside the front door staring at the long illuminated road ahead of me and myself am I doing the right thing? ... He looked at me with his dead eye sand asked me with a very narrow damp and weak hissing voice and demanded give me some change you don't know what its like over here I cant spare you some change he looked at me with disappo...

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• Grade Level: High School

Uncle Don didn't ask Grandpa or Grandma to go down stairs with him. ... This house was built by your great great grandfather. ... It took him three years to build this house. ... The same house my great great grandfather built. ... The house now belongs to the whole family. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He lived only a few houses down from us and was a very important figure in our lives. ... My thoughts, and worries were cut short by the ringing of my house phone. ... My two brothers and I jumped into my car and sped the mile and a half to my Grandparents" house. As I leapt from my car and ascended the pathway stairs towards the front of the house thoughts of my grandfathers welfare filled my head, overshadowing my own fear of death. ... He seemed to be comfortable with the loved ones that surrounded him in the house that he had raised his family in. ...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School