Stories tagged “homecoming”
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homecoming surprise
When the homecoming committee voted on an outdoor homecoming everyone was on board. The girls took to decorating the lower field with white awnings and many candles. The boys built a elevated wooden dance floor in shop class. The gym teacher’s br...
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What Not to Say at a Football Game
My friends finally convinced me to come to our homecoming football game. I’m dangerously ignorant when it comes to watching football, but I decided it would be fun to go anyway. I stood next to my friend Liz on the bleachers, half-cheering whenev...
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Home is Where the Hearts Are
Pausing at the front door I rested my hand on the heart-shaped door knob. Much of this was my fault. If I hadn’t left, I could have prevented the house’s decline. Hopefully, it hadn’t been gutted. The house was not as I remembered it....
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Back to the Rain.
The sun shone down on the gleaming tarmac like a blowtorch on impossible ice as the plane finally came to a stop. England once more! the land of my fathers, the world to which I was born and bourne again. here was my homeland, estranged for so many yea...