Billy Hopkins Analysis

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One day, little Billy Hopkins was drinking chocolate milk in the kitchen while he was drawing a picture of the moon. He loved everything about space, but he loved the moon the most. He also really loved chocolate milk; he would drink glasses of it in one setting if his mom would let him. Once he finished drawing the moon, an idea popped into his head: what if he could drink chocolate milk on the moon? Combining his favorite things like that would be the best. He decided that he would built a rocket to take him and his chocolate milk into space. He would built it out of the cardboard box his brother’s drum set came in. He finished his chocolate milk and set his glass on the counter while he went to grab the cardboard box.
As he found the box

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