My Story
My name is Brian Van Smith, and on October 25, 2002, I was born in Miami, Florida. As soon as I left the hospital, we were staying at my grandparents' house, in their spare room. Just over a year later, my parents had a second child and decided we needed more space, so they bought a three-story house in Westchester, Ohio.
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I loved living there, but after three years, my parents decided they wanted to be closer to the rest of our family, so ended up moving the family back to Florida. At this point they had three kids and were waiting for the closing of our new house, so we, once again, stayed at my grandparent's place.
After just over a year, our house had finally closed and we moved in right then. This was by far the house I lived in the longest, as I was there from 2009 to 2017. In 2013, my parents had a third daughter, making me the only male of four kids. While we were very attached to the house, my parents wanted to move back to Ohio and began looking-into buying a new house in that state.
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In early December of 2017, my parents settled on moving to Loveland, and we drove up there on the very last week of the year. I have been living there ever since, and have recently welcomed a new younger sister to the family.