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“Get him boy!!!” shouted Happy, to his dog Dirk. I ran for my life when I heard those exact words. At that point I knew that I was was going to get hurt, my heart was beating so fast I could barely keep up. Happy and Dirk have been tormenting and mocking me ever since I came to this small town.
Earlier I went to the store and he would follow me, I would go to school and he would torment me because we went to the same exact school. I had just moved to this town, and lived alone in a basement of an apartment building. Every day I go to work at a bowling alley/dinner and go to to school at Bradley elementary school every day to earn money and have a good education. I also go to farms in the summer, So that I can get new
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