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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 were changed.)

Sally

      Sally Thomson is my best friend. She is in 8th grade 

and is 14 years old. Her birthday is May 31st. Sally is 

around 5'3" tall and has black hair and she wears braces. She 

can really fight good, thats why harley nobody fights her. She 

comes from a tough family. Sally's father and grandmother 

owns the Thomson Gift and pawn shop on West Sixth 

Avenue.  Her mom and dad are divorced but her mom 

remarried to Sam Jones. She has a step-brother, a whole 

sister, and three brothers. She has a pretty nice, and wild 

family. She is living with her mom, step-brother, and her 

step-dad. She goes to her real dads on weekends sometimes. 

I have known her since the first day of school. Kelly 

Marston introduced us, and then instead of me and Kelly 

best friends, it was Sally and I. Last year it was Kelly and 

Sally that were best friends, but not this year, so Kelly 

got a little jealous. Sally use to date my brother Bill, they 

went together and broke up so many times that it isn't funny. 

She is now getting over Bill and is starting to see John, 

my cousin. She has a thing for the Donnes. She met John 

when I took her to Kings Dominion with me. He won her a 

great big polar bear and a small kola bear. She has his class 

ring now. She goes to a catholic church which she doesn't 

like, when shes eighteen she said shes coming to my church, 

Jamesville Assembly of God. She likes it up there. Sally 

Thomson is a good friend.