Makes Up Who We Are

I have mentioned before we are all created unique.

Not one of us is alike.

What makes us who we are? We do know we get

our physical appearance along with personality 

from our parents.

Everything else that makes us who we are will

come from where we live well as where are 

parents came from.

My father grew up in the same area as I have.

His father came here as a young man from

England while his mother was from Nebraska.

So not only living here brings social and culture

to him so does what his father and mother had

while growing up.

My mother grew up in Edmonton, Alberta,

Canada where it winter for more than half

of the year. She came to Seattle in 1946 after

being in Ottawa, Ontario when she finished 

college during World War Two. She spent

two years in Paris, France as well.

My mother's father was born and raised in

Montreal, Quebec while her mother was from

Nova Scotia. Both grandparents came out west

as adults. My grandfather was a banker while

my grandmother was a school teacher.

So you see I am not only different from you 

in appearance but where I lived and my parents

too. I grew up in a small town in the pacific northwest

of the USA  I have influence from my grandfather

Nightingale being from England and grandmother

from Nebraska though I didn't really know her as

she died when I was only 13 months old. 

Besides being born in the USA I have influence

from Canada as well because of my mother. So

this makes up why I am different from you in

many ways.