I reread your essay and found some issues I haven't noticed before
But as luck would have it, I would havehad to fight for my passion.
Due to our tight budget, I left for the United States without the piano that had accompanied me for over ten years; missing it desperately,I struggled to let go of my depression without it
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If you didn't use my correction ,then you mean you used music as means of letting go depression?)But yet you write" missing it desperately", so it means the depression is caused by not having piano. Can you make it clear to me?
my parents' once happy union became anything but united as they argued more frequently.
union being united is redundant
Nobody said that moving to the United States would be easy
this sentence is kinda out of place
Having grown up in a city, I enjoy the ...
this part feels disconnected with the preceding. Try to throw some transitional sentence
Wait, I'm confused. In previous essay you wrote that you moved from China to US, now you write you moved from a city to town in US
Attending choir was expensive. How could I turn to my parents who were also struggling to earn a living for the family?
attending choir required money and so I faced a monetary dilemma: How could I turn to my parents who were also struggling to earn a living for the family?
Although I meticulously counted the money that I earned from tutoring and the cafeteria job, the sum stayed the same-one hundred dollars and fifty cents total, no moreThe answer was obvious -- I had to work myself .[/quote]
My nice neighbors, Auntie Aida and Rose, realizing my concerns, aided me with money by offering me a kitchen-cleaning job despite havingthe tight budget themselvesto tighten the stomachs themselves .
The pace was grueling; my leg muscles screamed out for rest, but I promised myself not toshall not give way.
The latter paragraphs are better with added direct speech, but the first paragraph now is more messy. . I've noticed more mistakes with articles and tenses. Don't rush, try to revise meticulously. And you don't need to say "please", I'll help you.
For now, invest more time in your first para, take notice of my comments and make the sentences flow with each other more smoothly, OK?))
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