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Home is a feeling

Home. A simple, four letter word, with over a million meanings to different people. What does it mean? Some people say it’s where you feel safe. Others will say that home is a roof over your head. Which is what home means to them. But it's different for me. Home isn’t just a building made of bricks and wood. It’s the people that make somewhere home. The friends, the family and the memories. That’s home. Not the structure that you’re in or the place that you are. Home can be anywhere you choose to make it. It can be in a house. It can be in an apartment. A condo. A cottage. A trailer. A tent. It can be anywhere, as long as you have people to make it home, and to share that home with. The words house and home are two similar words with two completely different meanings. A house is a structure, a building. Just walls and a roof. An object. Home is people. Family and friends. Hospitality. It can be carried with you as you go. Home is a feeling, not a place.

Isla

Grade 6

Kitchener, Ontario

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