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How I Wish I Spent My Summer Vacation
-The President and I duel with our extreme calculator/hover-board/microwave/air mattress/compass/laser-beam/laptop

Over summer vacation, I received a laptop. It wasn't just any laptop. This laptop came from from an alien and could tell me anything I wanted to know. It's great! The laptop can also run any computer program, game, or any other software that is known to man. It has a built in calculator, CD drive, hover-board, microwave, blow-up air mattress, compass, laser-beam, and most important of all, it can read people's minds! I just ride around, on my floating air-mattress, heating up Hot Pockets, listening to music, and shooting laser-beams at people. The President of the United States even challenged me to a duel against his own calculator/hover-board/microwave/air mattress/compass/laser-beam/laptop against my own. If I won, I would become the President, and he would go to school for me and do all my homework. So, of course, I agreed. It was like one of those western films, except we had laptops instead of guns.

We were standing in an empty parking lot, booting up our laptops. It was midday, and there was a bird sitting on a manhole in the center of the cracked asphalt . We both knew what the other was thinking (because of our laptops) and knew that when that bird flew away, IT WAS ON! Suddenly, as if sensing the danger, the bird flew away as quickly as it could. There was a brief pause that all you could hear was *click* *click* *bleep!* and then we were off!

In one agile swoop we activated the matress/hoverboards and flew straight up next to each other. He shot a laser-beam at me and missed! I took my Hot Pocket out of the microwave and threw it at him, POW!, I hit him right in the mouth! I took advantage of his confusion to fly my mattress into his and I managed to take out his hoverpads. He jumped onto my mattress and we fell over the side, both of us barely hanging on with one hand. I kicked at him and he grabbed at me, and using all of my strength I

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