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After reading page 1-77 of Serafina’s Promise I understand a lot of thing and what people in Haiti had to happen. This story is around Serafina and her family. Manman,papa ad Gogo. Then you meet Serafina's friend Nadia and Julia Mary. The story starts when Serafina is looking for water. Her mother was pregnant at the time the doctor told her that she need to eat more because the baby heartbeat are weak and that she was going to bring her a present tomorrow. The next day the baby die. Serafina and her family had to move on.Gogo told Serafina about her Granpe and how he died. Time past and flag day was the next Monday. Serafina have practice how to tell her father that she wanted to go to school. When she told him that he said that they didn't
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