Lemon Meringue: A Short Story

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It was time for Thanksgiving and every year the Royal Family has a ball so they opened the castle gates for the people in the village to come and join them for the feast. The bakers had made a lot of different types of breads, cakes, pies. The pies were pumpkin, pecan, chocolate pecan, lemon meringue. The princess did not like the lemon meringue as much because the only one that knows how to make the pie was her Aunt Barb. After they ate dinner, it was time to dance and play games. About 11 o’clock, the two youngest princesses, Daisy and Maggie went out to the garden to sit by the swan fountain and then they fell asleep. When the ball had concluded, the Queen and King could not find the two princesses anywhere in the castle so they called for

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