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After I got to the where the car had stopped I stooped down and hoisted it off of the ground. Once I had the lightweight, balsa wood car in my hands, I rushed back into the classroom. When I stumbled through the doorway grinning like a madman, Mrs. Young knew immediately what had happened. “I take it it finally worked?” she inquired.
I felt my smile grow ten times bigger, taking up ninety percent of my small face. “Finally.” Taking a moment to think, I plopped down in a chair. My lungs let out all of the air they could’ve possibly been holding in with one humongous sigh of relief. After all, it felt as though the weight of the universe had just been lifted off my shoulders. I had been so nervous about this, with only two days left, but

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