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Short Story: I Beat Algernon

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How would u feel been called names?Getting called dumb and people calling you names.After the surgery Charlie was smarter and that made his life better after all. Charlie was better off after the surgery because he had finally beat Algernon! He didn’t even know that he had beat algernon until but the tester had told him that he won.Then the second time he lost.Charlie was very happy because he had never beat algernon.I beat Algernon! “I didn’t even know that i had won”. Charlie had never understood why he had never noticed how beautiful Miss kinnian really is. Miss Kinnian has brown eyes and feathery brown hair that comes to the top of her neck.And Miss Kinnian is only thirty~four.Charlie is really in love with her. The first time he thought

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