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The Wave: Lily's Poem
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Lily got up at 10:00 am like she does every morning during the summer. Then she got ready to go to the beach and surf. When she got there she went out in the ocean. When she first got out she saw a great wave, it was not too big but not too small. She then rode it into shore. Everything was going great until the waves started getting rough.

She paddled out it was a little hard because the waves kept getting stronger. Then she heard a surfer yell for help. Lily started to swim as fast as she could over to the surfer. When she got there the lifeguard was about 20 feet away. Lily then told the surfer to hold on to her board. She swam to the lifeguard. Then the lifeguard took the girl and Lily paddled on out again. The undertow was

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