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Elstow: The Barrow Family
The Barrow family was one of the many to live in Elstow a farming community. Her ancestors had settled in Elstow in 2000. When Green became president in 2170, he decided that farmers didn’t need an education and closed all the school and banned books in towns like Elstow. However, her grandfather disagreed with this law and educated Freya and Mare. None of the other children were educated and Freya was smarter than them. But instead of being obnoxious and showing off, she wanted to be helpful and tried teaching some of the children at a hospital what she knew. She spent a lot of time with one girl who was very ill and soon she became best friends with Crystal.

Freya has always been caring and modest wanting the best for other people. Sometimes
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