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Reuniting with my Mother
I am now 19 years old the owners of me are getting old and he has started to get weaker and does not come out every to supervise us any more, but one day he did come out one and called all of the slaves into the barn for a meeting, and that is when he told us that Abraham Lincoln our current president has made slavery illegal, so he will be sending us free. Many people were happy including me because that means that we could get jobs that we want and could get paid for it. That first week that I was on my own, it was very difficult to find a job that I actually liked so I finally realized that I wasn't going to find a job that I liked. It has been two months and my best friend since about 5 years ago and has been there for when I was having a bad day and me are going to go out for dinner. We both ordered a burger and I heard a voice at the table right next to our that I recognized I turned my head and there was my mother talking to the waiter, she looked at me and almost went into tears when she recognized me.