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“It is okay, but I am not telling you!”

Then, Mary ran off and then she saw John, her crush in 3 grade, but
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not anymore.

“Wait up!” Mary exclaimed.

And then John said turning around, “Is Jennifer around?”

“No! They are out there talking about parties and gossiping.”

“Pheww!”

“Why?”

“Because if they find me they are going to ask questions about Max!

And that is supper annoying.”

Then John ran off, Mary did not want him to think that she was in love
Max-cool, Netherlands John-kind, Germany Allan-unspeakable,
Indonesia
with him. By the way, did I tell you that in this 4 grade there is a word
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Caroline-grandma, Canada, her parents divorced Robert-aggressive,
called love in every popular girl’s head, and also that the whole school
Spain, loves football/soccer William-private part touchier, Italian Josephine-
butt mover, ugly, Spain Paul-tall, Germany Manuel-weird, wears braces and
hates them? But their mothers say,
glasses, Brazil Juliet-red-haired, U.S.A Mike-normal, Bolivia Samantha-
African, weird Juliana-hair flicker, ugly, Venezuelan Alice-tattle-tale,
“My daughter will never do that, she is as pretty as a flower!”
shouter, Argentinean, gossiper Jim-runs with his butt up, Spain Sid-
Not exactly of course, but something like that. Mary went running to
aggressive, Bahamas Adam-speaks low, Chile Christine-skinny, mean,
the line because she was bored, she went running as fast as a horse. Then
Germany, gossiper Leo-king of lies, England Andrea-gossiper, friend-user,
ugly, fat, Spain Wilson- sucks his thumb, aggressive, England Jennifer-
while she was running she noticed a note on her backpack. The note said,
gossiper, ugly, short Sam-reader, disgusting, Canada Chris-disgusting,
skinny, boney, Germany Cody-crazy, sexist, always wants to be first, Egypt

When Mary read the note, she wanted to tell Mike to stop throwing these

notes at her. But when she asked Mike if he had done it, he said that he

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