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wanted to meet her, and ask why she she couldn't walk. They were afraid they would hurt her feeling by asking her. So they would just watch her when they thought she wasn't looking trying to figure out why.
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No one in the class would talked to her much. The only thing they knew was her name which was Anna.
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When Anna's mom picked her up after school each day, Anna looked sad and sometimes she would cry.
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"Mom," she said, "the kids at school are not friendly. They are not like at my other school. They treat me like some kind of freak."
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Mom told Anna, "Do you remember when you started your previous school, there was already a student there in a wheelchair. Therefore, you weren't so different to the students there. Your new classmates just have to get to know you. Then they will realize that you are the same as they are except you can't walk. You are the same inside and have feelings just like you do.
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"Yes, Mom, I do have feeling just like they do. I want to have friends so I won't feel so lonely, " Anna said.
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"Anna," mom said, "the opportunity will come up for you to tell you classsmates about who you really are. Just be patient and that time will come."
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Anna replied, "Yes, our names are almost alike, and there are other things that we have in common, too."
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"I am not that much different from you and Betsy, except I can't walk. I was born with a spinal defect, and I will never be able ot walk, but other than that, I am just a normal girl like you. I like the things that girls our age like, and am able to do many things from my wheelchair."
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Anne and Betsy seemed a little surprised that Anna was so open about her disability. they began to see her throughdifferent eyes.
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The next day Anne and Betsy invited Anna to sit at their table during lunch.. The other kids in the class were curious why Anne and Betsy were interested in being with Anna.
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On the way home from school that night, Betsy and Anne were poked fun at and called freaks, too
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But Betsy and Anne were not afraid. "Stop it!" they said,"Like Quasimodo says, "It's the heart inside that counts!"
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Just because somebody look different on the outside doesn't mean they don't have feeling. Anna is a special person and you should take the time to know her she is lots of fun to be with. She is coming to my Halloween Party I hope you all still come and get to know her.
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Anne's and Betsy's Halloween party was always the best in town. Their other school mates never wanted to miss it. They had been coming to the party for a lot of years. But Anne and Betsy wondered if anyone would come this year since Anna was invited, but the insisted that no matter what happened they would include Anna.
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Anna was so excited about going to the party. She began to plan ahead of time for the costume she would wear.
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Anne and Betsy asked Anna about how she would dress for Halloween, But Anna would just smile with a twinkle in her eyes and said, "I can't even tell you because it is going to be a big surprise."
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Anne and Betsy had an idea. They each decided to use wheel chairs for the party. That way Anna would not be the only one in a wheelchair.
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If we wear costumes and use wheelchairs, let's dress so no one will recognize us. Let's suggest that to Anna, too. We are going to have fun with the others if they come. Then they will have to figure out who is who in the wheelchairs, and find out that Anna is not so different except she cannot walk.
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On second thought, let's not tell Anna. I will be a surprise. She wants to surprise us with her costume, so let us surprise her. So Anne and Betsy starting planning for their costumes.
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On second thought, let's not tell Anna. I will be a surprise. She wants to surprise us with her costume, so let us surprise her. So Anne and Betsy starting planning for their costumes.
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They went to Anne's Mom and asked her if she had any ideas about what they thought about for the party. She said, "Well, let me think about it a bit. I think I can come up with someting new."
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The next day after school they asked her if she had thought about it, and she told them that she had an idea. She began to describe her idea. It's like this..........
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We will have the party in the garage, and we will decorate it like a haunted house amd play scary music. We can also........
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partition off part of the garage with large black plastic sheets, and call it the "Mummy's Tomb".
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We will get some big cardboard boxes form the furniture store and make a mummy's coffin. But we need someone to dress like a mummy to be in the coffin.
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The kids who are invited must go through the haunted house blind-folded in order to get into the party. They will be require to feel things in the haunted house without seeing them.
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We will put peeled grapes in a bowl and they will feel like eyeballs. In another bowl, we will put dried lima beans to feel llike teeth. In another bowl, we will put cooked spaghetti will cooking oil over it so it will feel like brains. And in another bowl, we will put dried apricots to feel like ears. Also, we.....
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"Oh, Mom," said Anne, "this is going to be the scariest Halloween party we have ever had. Betsy and I can't wait to go tell Anna."
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Mom said, "Okay you can wait to hear the rest of my ideas. Go tell Anna and maybe she will come up with some more ideas. We still have two weeks to plan for the party."
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So they hurried to tell Anna. It has to be kept a secret so nobody will know until they arrive at the party.
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Anna said she would arrive early and help them with the preparations for the party.
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The afternoon of the party, Anna mother dropped her off to help with the preparations. She had a duffle bag with her with her costume in it.
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After getting everything ready, Anna asked Betsy and Anne to help her get into her costume. They were so surprised to see what her costume was.
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Anna said that she wanted to be the mummy in the coffin, and she began to pull out strips of cut up sheets out of her bag.
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Great! Anne and Betsy thought. We couldn't get wheel cahirs as we planned, but let's change places. One of us will sit in your wheelchair, and you can lie in the coffin for the beginning of the party. We will both dress as mummies, too.
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So the kids started arriving. They had to go one at a time through the haunted house. As they began feeling around, they felt yucky objects, and began to get a little squeamish. They wondered what they would encounter next.
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When they got to the mummy's coffin, they felt around. Suddenly the mummy sat up, and touched their faces with cold hands. "ARRRGH!" they screamed, and ran out of the haunted house.
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Just as they got out of the house, they saw Anna in her wheelchair dressed like a mummy. "What's the matter, Anna," some of them said. "Were you too chicken to go into the haunted house? You need to go in and see how scarey it is."
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The "mummy" in the wheelchair just stayed silent and still, and didn't answer them.
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Then they heard an eerie laugh from the haunted house........"AHHAHAHA".....
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One of the kids, started pushing the "mummy " in the wheelchair into the haunted house. Suddenly......the "mummy" stood up. The kid ran out screaming. Then.........
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the other kids asked what's the matter? The kid that pushed the wheelchair into the haunted house, said, " Anna got out of the wheelchair and stood up. It really scared me."
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You all go into the haunted house and see for yourself. ...But nobody was brave enough to do that.
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Betsy, who was really the mummy in the wheelchair, helped Anna change places with her. Anna rolled her wheelcahir out to the party.
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Then the kids heard three girls burst out laughing, and they all appeared in their mummie's costumes.
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The kids looked from one mummy to another. "Who are you," they wondered. Which one of you is Anna?"
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The girls said, "What's the matter? Can't you tell us apart in our costumes?"
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"You see, you are judging us from the outside ...but when we are all dressed alike, you can't tell us apart. That's the way you judge Anna. You just look at her from the outside."
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The kids at the party began to see Anna in a different light. They wanted to know her better.
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Then Anne, Betsy, and Anna explained to the kids what they had done by exchaning places with Anna in the wheelchair. "You didn't give Anna a chance because she LOOKED different, but she is really just like us and is a lot of fun. We just wanted you to realize this."
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The other kids were friendly with Anna at the party from then on. Many said they were sorry for treating Anna as they did before.
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When the party was over, all of the guests told them it was a great party...the best party ever.
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The kids also said that they were sorry for treating Anna as they did. Now that we have spent some time with her we thinkshe is really a neat girl, and we would like to get to know her better.
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When Anna arrived at school Monday a surprise was awaiting her.....
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that anne was not talking to betsy and didn't like anna
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because she was jealous of the attention Anna was getting.
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The other kids at school wanted to eat lunch with Anna, and they wanted her as a friend. Anne was feeling left out.
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Anna went up to Anne after school and asked her to come over to her house Saturday morning becasue she had someting to tell her.
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When Anna got home she phoned Betsy and asked her to come over Saturday morning, too.
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When they arrived, Anna told them that she she didn't want to cause any problems with their frindship. She told Anne that she understood that she was hurt becasue she felt left out.
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Anna said to them that she knew how it felt to be left out, and she didn't want Anne to feel that way. I am grateful to you for what you have done, but you were best friends before and I know you would like that to continue.
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You both have been wonderful to me and I want to continue being good friends with you both, but don't want to come between your friendship.
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Anne said that she was hurt becasue she thought Anna was taking her place as Betsy's best friend. Betsy told Anne that she was sorry that it appeared that way, and she was also hurt because Anne wasn't speaking to her.
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They bpth started crying and said they were sorry for hurting each other. Then they hugged and vowed to remain best friends.
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This made Anna happy. She told them that now that the kids found out that she was not so different from them, that she was sure she would find a best friend, too.
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that best friend was Deanna and Deanna had a best friend and that best friend was Mienya a spanish name The End.
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Only it wasn't really the end. For Deanna and Anna were really good mates with Betsy and Anne. They remained good friends for many years
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One day Anna announced she was leaving, to go to Oxford university in England so she could study physics. Although the other three were sad she was going, they were delighted for her as they knew how hard she had worked to gain her place, and they vowed to stay in touch
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they decided to meet her. they found out she was just like a normal person.
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They gathered around to tell Anna good bye as she left for college. She wathched them all waving to her in her rear view mirror as she drove away.
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As Anna looked out her rear mirror she saw her friends crying, and felt sad and happy at the same time.
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the kids also wonder how it felt to be in a wheelchair so they started talking to anna,and let her know that they truly like her as afriend and wanted to play with her.and of course anna knew that they wanted to know what it was like to be in a wheelchair.then one day anna went away and was gone for four week.then one day the teacher said class i have good new and just as she said that in walk anna without a wheelchair.
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asked her how it felt.She said"it feels like sitting in a comfey all day.The kid in the wheelchair Whos name was kate asked if she could come over. After school kate asked her mom she she said yes. Anne and Betsy would sit in the wheelchair. Betsy Anne & kate became best friends.
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Och n?r de var b?sta v?nner s? lekte de med varann varje dag efter skolan och fingerpullade varann varje dag.
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I don't understand what this is about. It's all mixed up?????
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end of story! The End!!!
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But it wasn't the end. For years she was worried that someone would really find out that her name wasn't really Anna, but it was really Simone. She had come to this city when her parents went into hiding with the witness relocation program. Now, she thought is the time to let all her friends know the true story, which is:
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Anna said"I have a other Friend her name is Misty"
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She was handicapped because her father freaked out one day and threw Anna A.K.A as Misty over a small cliff.
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She was handicapped because her father freaked out one day and threw Misty and Anna ( A.K.A Simone) over a cliff.
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The End
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both walked over to the new student and ask why (the student) was in the wheelchair. As the story was being told they soon found out that the new student had a dis-ease with her legs which made it hard to walk.
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