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Cape Cod: A Short Story
On a windy and rainy day in September 1620 the Mayflower Ship was leaving Cape Cod. I was aboard the ship and heard waves were crashing hard and I could feel the Mayflower shaking. I felt someone tapping me on the shoulder and he smelled as though he didn’t shower in several days. His name was Bob.

Bob exclaimed, “I love my job as the repair man on the pilgrims ship, it’s really neat but there are problems”.

One of the problems is that Bob has trouble doing repairs himself on the boat. He needs help from other people.

His words reminded me of a time when I was on a boat during a really dangerous storm. I thought that when the big storm came it wrecked the beam on the ship. I remembered that we all fell out of the ship. Then we were
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So I immediately go after Susan.

She’s responded, “What happened?”

I explained that there was food in the refrigerator.

Susan answered, “I didn’t know that there was food in the refrigerator and I told Susan that she was hiding supplies from me.”

She responded, “Yeah I did hide those supplies.”

I was very mad at Susan so I wanted to punish her, so I made her buy me more supplies.

Bob survives jumping off of the Mayflower by swimming, yelling loud, huddling together, waving to any helicopter, climbing, and jumping. So finally someone comes with a big boat to rescue them, and it was so amazing to see it! Bob hugged the boat driver.

“I said, thank you!”

So Bob decides to calm down and come back to the U.S because he doesn’t know where else to go, and he feels much safer because he has been all fixed up and happy to be back in the U.S. Bob is going to retire and he is going to build his own wooden house. The wooden house will be suitable for him, and his wife. So when the wooden house was completed, it was amazing! Bob was laughing and Susan was doing a happy cry because of all of the work that Bob put into his wooden


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