Colorado: A Short Story

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It takes 5 hours to get to my cabin in colorado but it is worth the wait because what we can do there is very fun. We can climb a mountain with a old mine on it and the mountain doesn't have any trails.I like to someone to climb up the mountain with me so I don't go climb it unless someone comes with me so I don't climb the mountain unless my friend Dalton comes with us.
Dalton comes to colorado with us a lot but when he does not come then it is still fun but not as fun.We go to Grape creek to fish and swim,if I fish then I have to be patient and quiet.I have to be patient so the fish will come and I have to be quiet so I will not scare away the fish. There is a xbox there too and there are lots of game for it and some of the stores in the

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