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April 22nd, 1847Westpoint, MissouriHello. My name’s Ada, and I’m so excited. We’re about to start the journey of a lifetime and I can hardly wait. Right now, I’m sitting in our covered wagon writing. Father and Jonathan are off somewhere and Mother is tending to baby Clarence. Everyone is nervous, I can tell but it’s a nervous excitement at the same time. We’re traveling to Oregon because Father wants a new life there. He says there’ll be ‘better opportunities’ which I think means better hunting grounds and better business selling things. It...
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“You know what? I quit.”I couldn’t do this. This was too hard. Throwing down my pencil, I watched as it clattered down onto my desk and rolled slowly off, and onto the chipped and stained tiles of Mrs. Lingot’s 7th English class.Next to me, Grace, my best friend, picked up the sharp yellow pencil and handed it back to me. “Here you go,” she said, smiling at me. I sighed and took it from her. “How do you do this? This is so hard!” I exclaimed in frustration. Grace adjusted her colorful headband in her curly black hair. “How do you do what?”“T...
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