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     I have double-spaced the text so that teachers can simply print it out and use it for exercises or for their own analysis. (Names have been changed.)

Best Friends

     Me and my Friends get along good, but only me and my 

best of Friends get along great. Sure everyone says this, but 

not that many people can say they have, sort of like, an 

adopted sister. You see, I have three brothers and no sisters, 

and I like pretending I have sisters. I even have a friend that 

people believe we are sisters, her name is Mary Evans. We 

look almost like sisters, we both have brown eyes and brown 

hair, and we love going shopping together. Sometimes we 

wear the same clothes and go out, to eat or something, and 

people say we look like each other and we just say we are 

sisters. Of cours we can't say we are twins, because of an age 

difference, she's 20 I'm 13. We can always say we're sisters 

who like each other a lot. Of course, I have more than one best 

friend, I have around eight or nine. I have a best friend in each 

class, even in lunch. In first period, I have Barbara, second 

period there's Sandi, and in third my best friend is Lori and 

Barbara. Unfortunately we get to 4th period, and that's where 

Sherri is my friend. Then in 5th there's Lori and Sandi, 

in 6th there's Lori and Annie. Oh, I almost forgot lunch. in 

lunch there's Sherri, Barbara, and Carrie. With all these people 

I have at least one thing in common, either hair or eye color, or 

even disliking or liking the same people. It doesn't matter what 

we have in common, we will always have something to talk 

about. True friends are hard to find.