•Harriet Welch always wrote in her notebookbecause she wanted to be a writer. Sheplayed a game with her friends after schoolonce. She was running and dropped hernotebook, and all of her friends picked up thenotebook and saw the mean things she wroteabout them. Her nannie, Ole Golly, got firedand wrote a letter to Harriet giving advice.From that letter Harriet learns to grow up.
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