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Weekly Contest #31
Summer passed without Bear to keep me company. I ran away often to the creek across the highway. I filled an entire notebook with poems. Sixth grade began, and in the fall we visited my father for the last time. The Wisconsin days had turned cold and windy. When Mother put us on the bus to Racine, I didn’t know something would happen to prevent us from visiting Father again.My father and Betty’s red brick apartment building was a few blocks from a corner grocery store. We kids were often sent to the store on shopping errands whenever we visi...
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