George: A Short Story

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It was 1981 George was a young kid. His dad wanted gold so bad because they were poor. He would come home all tired with no gold, which he was very upset about. So george really wanted to find gold for his family. Once his family went to sleep. He,snuck out and went to the empire mine but it was closed he when in there any way. He spent hours bent over using his pick ax looking for gold, but there was no luck. When he was about to leave he heard someone whisper his name “ George George’’ He got scared so he ran but they yelled, We have gold sounding excited he felt very confused because it looked like a person that was made of gold. He seemed very overjoyed than `everyone else. They said, “ If you can lift the golden nugget you would be the

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