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This short excerpt from Home Game by Michael Lewis was hilarious and incredibly relatable considering I have a six and four-year-old sister. Lewis put a lot of description in this story, I could feel his embarrassment and shock as if I were him. The language in this story was very “colorful” but that’s what made it even more funny for me. I literally laughed out loud a few times while reading this story.
My favorite part of the story was when Dixie informs the teasing boys that they should watch out because she peed in the pool two times and she didn’t care what they thought…my kind of girl. I also liked how Lewis compared himself to a crocodile as he watched Dixie go off on the teasing boys. I surprised how at the end Lewis explains how
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