Checkouts Love Story

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In the story “Checkouts” two teens fall in love. The girl and her parents are moving to Cincinnati. The girl hated the thought of leaving the town she grew up in. For a month she spent the greater part of everyday in her room, because she missed her hometown.
According to the article, the girl finally didn’t have the energy to stay in her bedroom. She liked to grocery shop, so she emerged from the beautiful house and went down to the supermarket and one she went in she fell in love with the bag boy at the grocery store. Each time she came back to the supermarket she always looked for the bag boy. She instantly fell in love with him. It was like love at first sight.
One day the bag boy dropped her jar of mayonnaise. He was very clumsy and nervous.

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