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Lemon Brown Reflection
Greg’s experiences change his senses of what's important because he met lemon brown. The thing that changes is his need for basketball to appreciating his dad. This is stated at the end when he was talking with lemon brown about how your father is just trying to help with his education, how he gets on in life, and what will happen too him later on in life.. This is also stated when he smiles at the end of the story when he smiles when he thinks about his lecture from his dad. That is how greg's sense of importance changed when he met lemon brown. Lemon brown's sense of importance changed when from one treasure too the next. His original treasure was the blues until it changed to the memory of his son. This changed when his son died and

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