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Alcove Springs: A Short Story
We have about three more days until we reach the Alcove Springs i’m excited cause i’ve heard that there's fresh clean water there. The only thing that i’m not happy about is that i’m really tired and my feet hurt from the big red sore blisters and that we had to throw off are piano that took so much money to get. It started getting dark out so we decided to go to bed.It's morning now everybody's up our backs are in so much pain because we had to sleep on rocky gravel but throughout the day the pain kinda starts going away. Our daughter is complaining that her feet hurt so with my sore back I had to carry her with my right hip while George was on my left hip. I got tired of holding her in thirty minutes so I had to have her ride on the wagon
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