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April 2006
“In Dream Painting” by Patty Kempf
In a town Rolling Water the year is 2009. It is a beautiful spring day. The sky is a pretty shade of robin egg blue. Sunflower is painting outside in the back yard in her wheelchair. She is trying to forget her troubles with her brother and two sisters. Sunflower has cp which that means someone could have cp in their hands like Sunflower. Her body jumps when she doesn’t want it to. She has a studio where it is quiet. But she didn’t think of herself as disabled. She is happy with her life. She paints and sometimes Sunflower sells her paintings! Which makes her very happy! Sunflower has short blond hair with sea green eyes and a heart shape face. She is a pretty lady. But no men will go out with her because she is disabled. Sunflower likes to go out with her friends and she loves to go shoe shopping, taking long walks with her dog Elvis k. Elvis k is a small mutt with brown and white fur, big brown eyes and floppy ears. He is always there for her to talk to, to cry and all the hot guys come over to pet him.
Sunflower is dreaming about a man on a horse. The horse is gray and white with cream-colored legs. The background of Sunflower’s painting is in her dreams about this place. The background has rocks and it looks like a tower with plants all around the rocks. The man and the horse look like they belong together. Sunflower traced her fingers over the man’s face. And said to herself in a low voice while she was looking at the painting; “Why am I dreaming about you? Don’t get me wrong I like to dream about you! It is better than dreaming about my brother and sisters. You are good looking. After lunch I will paint your face. Or wait until I come to you in my dreams!” Sunflower shook her head and in a kidding voice she told herself, ‘Girl you are losing it, your brother and sisters has gotten to you if you are talking to a painting!’ Just then Sunflower heard her sister’s car coming up the driveway. It was her sister Deb but Sunflower nicknamed her Taz in her mind because she moved so fast.
On Mother’s Day Sunflower had a knock down drag out fight with her with her brother and sisters. But she thought that she could shake it off. Until Sunflower told her sister off. She felt a little better then. To be continued…
"Friendship" by Sarai Rossi
Diana is my best friend because she helps me at the U.C.P Center. I like to help people out. Diana asked me if I wanted to be in the advocacy class. I decided to sit in on a class to see if I would like it. I really like advocacy class. I really like the way the class is set up. Our class meets on Monday afternoon. David is our teacher. He is a social work intern student from a local college. He works for Butler County. David is a good talker and listener to his students. He enjoys the ideas that we have for the class. I get to tell my idea’s because Diana and I work on the computer in advocacy class so I can communicate to my teacher and friends. We talk about a lot of stuff that will help understand different issues. We also learn a lot of ways that we can advocate for ourselves. Advocacy lets me help my friends. Diana and I are good advocates because we understand our strengths and how we like to help other people.
Diana Lynn Mairose
January 30, 2005
"The Eyes Have It."
One day I didn’t want to go to the eye doctor for my weekly therapy. Instead I thought I would run away. As I ran my sister tried to get me to fall down like a police officer chasing a suspect. I started screaming in the backyard of a neighbor’s house. At that time my mom came and found us fighting. Finally my mom got me to calm down. Then I told her that he was being to harsh on me even though I was listening and trying my best in all the exercises I had to do. My mom said she would talk to him while I got started doing the exercises that I knew how to do. All three of us got in the car to leave. All of a sudden we got stuck in a huge traffic jam only a couple of minutes to the doctor’s office. It was so hot out that day and my moms’ air conditioner was not working. At that moment my mom decided that it was too hot for me to get my eyes checked. Instead we drove to my favorite frozen yogurt place and to the bookstore. Meanwhile my sister called the office and said that my glasses were out eating golden vanilla ice cream and was reading a book called “Have you seen my glasses”? All of a sudden I woke up to Dr Kitchener’s voice saying, the surgery is all done. I will come check your bandages later in the afternoon. The End
By D.J. Maes.
The title is: “REX and Erica, the Super Talking Golden Retrievers.”
It was June the 23, 2006. A Golden retriever, who was Named; REX was taking, a walk. He passed, a Spaceship. It looked like, a big dog Bone. REX smelled, the Bone. His Tail hit, a Button, on the Bone. The Bone broke in half. Another Golden retriever came out of the Bone. She was walking, on TWO legs. Also; she wore, a Pink dress and red Lipstick. She walked up to REX. She started to Sing; inside your dog food. After; she Sang, REX stood up, on His TWO legs. He said; what is going on. She told him, she was the queen of Golden retriever World. REX asked her, what was her Name. She told him, she didn’t have a Name, because the queen doesn’t need, a Name in Golden retriever World. REX said; you need, a Name on earth. He said; he loves, the Name; Erica. She said; that was a cool Name, in Golden retriever World. SO; she took, the Name; Erica. Erica told him, he needed to put Clothes on, because he was naked. REX said; every dog is naked, on earth. Erica said; that is dog PORN. She told him, they could fly to a store, really fast. He said; that is really cool. SO; they flew to JC Penny’s. They walked in, the People thought; they were dressed up, AS dogs. A person told REX to put, Pants on. SO; he got, a Pair of black dress Pants. Erica picked out, a blue dress Shirt for him. They looked at ties. REX loved, the one with the Bones, on it. SO; he Bought it. A Hour Later; Erica was hungry for Lunch. She liked Corn dogs. REX asked her, does she really know, about Corn dogs. Erica told him, Golden retriever WORLD got, COPIOUS Spies. SO; we know everything, about People of Earth. REX asked her, why you need to know that. She told him, we want to live, on Earth. REX said; you got, your OWN World. Erica told him, Golden retriever World is about to blow up. SO; we needed to find, another Place to live. Since Earth is the only Other Planet, has living things, on it. A few Minutes Later; Erica called, her boyfriend; Jeff dog cookie. He asked her, if Earth was a good Place to live. She said yes. SO; all of the Golden retrievers came to live, on Earth. The End.
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