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The World's Smallest Cottage Case Study
The World’s Smallest Cottage
According to my mother, everyone has to go through trials at some point in their life. For me, I suppose one of my trials was being the middle child and only girl of five children. I don’t know why I was stuck with four brothers, but sometimes life just decides to whack you in the face doesn’t it? At the moment, I was squished in the car between my older brothers Davis(the smartest), Finn(an annoying nuisance), and my younger brothers, Michael whom we called Mike(a real chatterbox) and Connor(at age ten he was the youngest and the quietest.) Our dog Apollo, a hyper cocker spaniel, kept jumping up on our laps and generally making a fool out of himself. For the seventh time, Finn pushed Apollo off the seat in a manner
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Mary and William were the grandchildren of the town's founder John Arbour. According to the research I did, their day had started off normally enough. William and Mary were both on their way to school, where they were stopped by a stranger in a black suit. Being the dunces they were, they agreed to follow him. This man, however turned out to be a sworn enemy of their grandfather and he killed them in order to cause John Arbour great pain. After this event John Arbour decided to cut Arbour off from the rest of Georgia, and did his best to avoid anyone ever coming there again. As for Mary and William, their bodies weren't found for over seven years.” Davis looked at us. “What did you …show more content…
Once we had reached the point where we could see our house in all its glory, Mike let go of my palm and we both stared. To say the cottage was small would be an understatement. It was a two story cottage, with brown bricks and an adorable red chimney. There were two steps which lead to the front porch, and on its two sides were a couple pots of peonies. Our new lawn albeit small had a lovely appearance with freshly cut green grass and tall sturdy oak tree perfect for climbing in. Nobody asked me what I thought of it, so I was relieved of the burden of coming up with the words to describe my

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