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     Once upon a time, in a land not too 

far from here, there lived a girl named 

Ellie. 

     Ellie lived in a small and quaint 

town where everyone knew their 

neighbor's name. They even knew the 

names of their pets.  

     The town had everything a person 

could ever need to live a long and 

happy life there. A market with fresh 

fruits and vegetables grown locally, a 

movie theater for entertainment, and, 

the thing that Ellie loved the most 

about her town, a library filled with 

books. 

     Ellie spent almost all of her free time 

with her nose in one of the books. See, 

Ellie was terribly shy, but she craved 

adventure outside of her small town. 

     Ellie wanted to climb to the top of the 

Eiffel Tower, walk through the lush 

rainforests of Brazil, pretend she was a 

princess in the Taj Mahal, and go on 

safari in Africa. 

     Ellie wanted to have amazing 

adventures, but her shyness kept her in 

the small town she called home. 

     She thought that the books would be 

enough to satisfy her craving for 

knowledge of the world outside the 

town limits.  

         One day, while walking down the 

dusty road from school to her home, 

daydreaming that she was actually 

walking down the Champs- Elysees in 

Paris, as she did almost everyday, she 

suddenly tripped over a rock. 

     The fall sent her tumbling down a 

steep hill.   

    When Ellie finally came to a stop, 

she could feel the hot sun on her skin. 

She then opened her eyes and gasped. 

     What she saw astonished her. Ellie 

was standing at the huge base of one of 

the great pyramids in Giza, Egypt. 

     While Ellie was terribly confused 

about how she ended up in the burial 

land of the great pharaohs, her craving 

for adventure took over. She stood up 

and began to explore. 

     While contemplating the great size 

of the pyramids, her foot caught on 

another rock, and again she went 

tumbling.  

     Ellie felt the cold on her face before 

opening her eyes again. When she did, 

all she saw was sky before her and 

snow at her feet. A small sign to her left 

confirmed where she thought she was. 

The summit of Mount Everest. 

     Ellie was terrified to think that next 

time she fell, it would be down the side 

of the largest mountain in the world, 

but the excitement of where she would 

end up next drove away any feeling of 

fear she had. 

     As expected, another rock found 

Ellie's foot, and she went tumbling. 

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