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Yeah , Okay . I'm

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Mackenzie . I'm 16 and I'm a military

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kid . Being a military kid . Sometimes

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you're in a community with lots of

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other people like you if you're living

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on base , but sometimes you're not , so

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it's hard to relate to other people .

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Sometimes when their parents aren't on .

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Deployments are aren't in the military

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like years . Even though I don't go to

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a school where many kids have

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military backgrounds . There are a lot

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of programs out there to help support

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military families and military kids .

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And I'm lucky to have found a program

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that , um , I can have a sense of

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community of other kids and families

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that have a parent deployed or just

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apparent in the military , and that has

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been very helpful when my dad has gone

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on two points . But I am very lucky to

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have some of these groups that I can

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connect with , and that's one thing I'm

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grateful for .