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Phase Autobiography

A phase autobiography is a special type of writing that focuses on an extended period of time, or phase, in the writer’s life. In the following phase autobiography, Teri Gardner writes about coping with a new home.

A Puzzling Summer

Beginning:
The beginning introduces the situation and indicates a problem—no friends.
The summer when I was turning 12, my family moved from Auburn, Washington, to Munster, Indiana. I had a posse of friends back in Washington but knew nobody here. Worse, the heat and humidity and mosquitoes drove me indoors. We didn’t have air conditioning, so the only place I could go to escape was the basement.

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