Billie Jo's Dustbowl

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It was a very bad day and Dustbowl came by and its was very bad. Billie Jo was born and her dad thought she was going to be a boy and she was a little kid in the Dust bowl that's why dad named her Billie Jo and then their was a very bad drought and the Dust storms it was coming very fast and they was scared so daddy went outside and tried to work on some things and he could not see anything and then Billie Jo friend Mad Dog was moving to CA and Billie was very sad because she was one of her great friends till they was little and Billie Jo favorite thing to do was playing the piano because she like playing it and Ma did not like Billie Jo playing the piano because she wanted her to focus on school but then Ma lets Billie Jo plays the piano

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