Leaving Farm Short Story

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Most people think moving is terrible. Not fun, never going to be the same. Well it is going to be okay, you are going to live not the end of the world. Well not for me leaving the farm was not the end of the world not for me. This is my story of me leaving the farm and going to town. When I went to town I learned how to get around by myself. We moved to More when I was 9 years old. I used to live on a farm, then I moved to town, and after a while I am back on the farm but let's not get ahead of ourselves. One year of me living in town I got a bike ya know OOH a bike big whoop but I used this bike so much around town, go to my friends house, go to the bakery. Know we all have that one friend that is nuts well here's mine. Her name was

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