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food a bird eats. And neither do I get any sleep, I sleep in the hard, cold attic, where
it is dark and uncomfortable. But one day when I was chopping wood, I heard the

two aunts complaining about me working so slow! Oh come on! I'm just about 6

years old! But then, when they were a bit too busy throwing a tantrum on who was
prettier (which is neither of them) an old, creepy- looking and bearded man called
me and gave me some green glowing grains. He told me to mix it up with water and

drink it so that something peculiar would occur. But when I was running to do so, I

fell and all those precious grains fell on the ground and they just magically sunk in
the soil! WHAT DO I DO NOW? I was crying. I thought something good would

happen to me at last, and now here it goes! When I went back to my two aunts, a
few minutes later, an enormous peach started to grow in our backyard. Aunt

Sponge and Aunt Spiker noticed this, and as the peach grew even more bigger and
bigger, the two started to dance and scream random things to the heavens.

“Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” Aunt Spiker shouted. But, that was only the beginning of
my peculiar adventures…

-Anshi Pant
VB