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Margot In The Closet: A Short Story

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The students had locked Margot in the closet because they didn’t like her, and they were jealous of the fact that she saw the sun before seven years ago. Margot is a tiny girl with snowball like skin. All she ever wanted was to see the sun on venus. A couple of days later, the students remember to let her out, only to find an empty closet. While Margot was in the closet she realized that she did have food to survive. The students had their egypt projects in there. Mrs. Dennis said pyramids look more realistic if they were made with rice crispies. So over half the class made their projects out of food. Margot was in the closet for a couple of days so she didn’t get to see the sun, or so they thought. When the sun came up she saw

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