Autobiography Template 29
Autobiography Template 29
Autobiography Template 29
Period 9
My name is Samantha Rose Peluchette and I was born 12 weeks premature on January 3,
1992 in Allegheny General Hospital at 9:36 pm. When I was born I weighed 2 lbs. 13 oz.
and I could fit in my dad’s hand. My mother, Hope Edwards, was 15 years old and my
dad, Daniel Peluchette, was 19 years old. I was in the hospital in an incubator until April
dad grew up in Saxonburg, Pa and went to Deer Lakes High School. My grandma, great-
grandparents, aunts, and uncles on my mother’s side of the family still live in or around
Wexford. My mom’s father lives in New Castle, Pa. My dad’s parents both passed away
before I met them, but they lived in Saxonburg, Pa. My dad’s brother lives in Tarentum
and my dad’s aunts and uncles and my great-grandma live in Grove City, Pa. On my
German, and Native American. On my dad’s side of the family, everyone is Italian. On
my mom’s side of the family, everyone has been living in western Pennsylvania for as
grandparents came to America from Poland and Germany. On my dad’s side of the
family I don’t know very many of my family members, so I’m not sure how they came to
After I was born, my mom and dad separated and I went to live with my great-
grandma until I was seven years old. While I lived with my great-grandma, I went to
North Allegheny School District, went to a Baptist church every Sunday, and played with
my friends. When I was seven, I moved in with my mom and my now step-dad, Jim. This
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is when I started going to Ambridge. Me and my mom have our differences, from
arguments to me leaving and staying with my dad, but we love each other and my
grandma says it is because we are both stubborn and Polish. Now I am 17 and a senior at
Ambridge, and I can not wait to graduate and get out of here.
Every year we have a family reunion on my mom’s dad’s side and on my mom’s
mom’s side of the family. We all get together and eat. The older people play bingo and
the younger people just hang out and catch up because we don’t see each other very
often. After the older people are done playing bingo, we have a play baseball. The teams
are always the same, adults versus teens and kids. For as long s I can remember the adults
every Saturday to eat dinner. When my great-grandpa passed away, we stopped doing
this as often. My great-grandma passed away in May and now this tradition has died out
altogether. We all still try to get together to have dinner and catch up every so often, but
lately it has not been working because we all have hectic schedules.
like this tradition because that means I have to help do all the cooking and cleaning and
everything to help get ready and then I have to clean up when everyone’s done eating.
We have to make two turkeys, a ham, and a lot of side dishes to feed everyone and I am
My great-grandma grew up during the great depression and always talked about
how hard things were. I know that I can not begin to understand how hard things were,
but that is only one challenge that she had to bear through. My great-grandparents got
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married right before my great-grandpa lefet to go to basic training for the army. He
fought in World War 2. My great-uncle fought in the Vietnam War.That is the story of