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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.

My Life

      The best thing that happened to me was when I was born  I 

don't remember to much when I was little until about 4 years 

old except for just small things. When I was 4 my grandpa 

taught me how to ride a bike.  I didn't want to ride a wheelie 

until it was a big bike then I wrecked it in a mud puddle.  Then 

when I was 5 I went to school.  I got a motorcycle when I just 

turned 5 it was a JB.50 SVSOK. I had it until I was about 7 

when I moved to meryland I hated to live there I was allways 

used to living in West Virginia, where the school was small and 

the people acted different, There wasn't any woods to go in 

when I got hot.  no places to go sleigh riding and that is boring 

not to be able to do any of these things. Then I moved back to 

West Virginia for a half of a year & I moved back to maryland 

in a half a year and then I moved back to West Virginia so at 

this time me and my mom & my brother Bill were living in 

West Virginia.  Then my dad was living in Virginia so at the end 

of the summer I moved to Virginia and I hated it more because 

the schools were big and the ones I were used to  Well, the one 

in West Virginia was kindergarden to 12 grade and it only had 

90 kids in it now so it was the smallest school in West Virginia 

so after that I started to like it better Thats were I live now I 

lived there for one year, 1/2