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  Our family bought a sheltie (aka mini Lassie) and named him Ritchie.
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  Wen I was younger I was doing underwater summersaults in our pool and cut right next to my eye on the rim of the pool and had to get stitches.
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  As kids my two brothers and I were often bored in the summer so my parents said they would give us $100 if we caught a live animal such as a duck, rabbit, bird, or squirrel without harming it. So one of my brothers and I actually did it and each got $50.
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  In tenth grade I was the Junior Miss Queen for my city's Strawberry Festival.
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  Our family went on a cruise to Jamaica, Cozumel, and the Grand Cayman Islands. It probably would have been more fun if I hadn't been on antibiotics for lymes disease.
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  I went to the Philippines for a mission trip through Focus with friends from college.
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  As part of my Outdoor Skills class we got to go to the Boundary Waters.
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  My roommate and I saw that they had a Van Gough exhibit in Chicago so we took a weekend trip there and stayed with one of her friends.