Palooza Research Paper

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If I ever got a ticket to visit any place I wanted, I would immediately use it to travel to a site called Palooza. It was created by me when I was eight years old. At that age, I was very much into fairy tales, so I constructed like a city where fairy tales weren’t exactly legends. The only way to get into that place was through a very powerful ring. Three taps on the center of the ring and a magical portal would appear to take you to any desired location. Two taps and it would show you either the past or the future, depending on what you ask for. The use of it had it’s perks however, it could only be used two times when traveling, it only worked on the owner of the ring. Palooza was not like any other city though, every fairy tale had their …show more content…
Little did they know how much trouble that was going to cause me. Growing up, evil people always tried to do me harm, when baby, the Evil Queen tried to kidnap me and raise me as her own, as a toddler, the Wicked Witch of the West from the Land of Oz, dressed herself as my nanny and tried to use me for her benefit. Once a teenager however, I had learned ways to protect myself, I already knew my way through every single town. Specially through Peter Pan’s village, when kids, peter and I had an immediate connection, we both knew we were going to end up together someday, and oh how soon that day came. Two days before our wedding the evil queen was desperate for a favor, a favor that included my ring, by then the ring was used to many times so I refused. When I did, she threatened to take away the one thing that mattered to me most, which was Peter. Ignoring her threat, I went on a search for peter, when I found him he was on the floor poisoned by a green apple. I tried my hardest shake to wake him up but it didn’t work, so I tried true loves

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