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Coconut Woman
Finally, uncle Peter and Samantha had decided
they would get started on setting up their area to
sell their coconut products. Uncle Peter called his
friends Angus, Darius, and Korean to help him put
up Samantha’s large tent for her display.
After some time, they had gotten everything
together and were ready to sell coconuts and
genuine coconut products. One of their first
customers was a young man named James who
was just about the same age as Samantha. He
came to buy some coconut water for his parents,
but he was five cents short. Fortunately, Samantha
gave it to him for the money he did have, because
she knew that would have been something her
father would have done.
During their conversation, James mentioned that
Samantha had reminded him of one of his good
friends named Bill, a man who was once called the
“Coconut Man.” By this time, tears trickled down
Samantha’s face because that ‘Coconut Man’ was
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