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Wai-Kirn's Favorite Memories

I Remember This

I remember my first friend, brother bear and my second friend, Logan I remember my favorite TV shows I remember when I learned to cook I remember my invention which was also my Halloween costume I also remember when I learned to tell my right to my left I remember my mom yelling at me I remember my mutated self I also remember my first baseball game when the Giants lost 6 to 5 I remember when all earth broke and it opened a portal to another dimension I remember this but I really really remember reading this poem to you.

-Wai-Kirn, Grattan Elementary

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Wai-Kirn Tells Us About the Mysterious Case

In the Case

In this case secrets lie or maybe some homemade strawberry pie. Or maybe some gems that sparkle and shine so let's take a look to see what we find. It could be a rifle or a shotgun a sword or maybe a bug named  cold blooded Norm it could be a contract for someone to sign or maybe a paper with one single line. Alas we can't know because on it said if you open this case you're good as DEAD.

-Wai-Kirn, Grattan Elementary

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Wai-Kirn's Recipe For Immortality

Immortal Juice

Ingredients: 1 pint of unicorn blood, 5 pomegranate seeds, 1 golden apple, and some salt, cyclops' eye, phoenix feather.

Directions: 1. Pour 1 pint of unicorn blood in an indestructible cup. 2. Shake with an indestructible cap. 3. Add 5 pomegranate seeds 4. Chop a golden apple in half 5. Add salt on the apple and mash the apple until liquid. 6. Pour liquid apple in the cup. 7. Put juice in an oven. 8. Heat it to 30,000°F for 2 years 9. Drink up while still hot 10. If you survive you're immortal 11. Eat cyclops eye (optional--gives you powers)

-Wai-Kirn, Grattan Elementary

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Lukas' Capricious Secret

A Light in the Darkness

My secret is made from a melted full moon, A dark, snowy night with still one ember glowing, An evergreen tree glazed in white, A deer grazing in a field; Under the covers with the light peeking out, whispering...

I found it a long time ago buried under a layer of snow, Having hibernated but now with open eyes, Searching for a light...

This secret can do a great bit of magic to the one who keeps it, It can flow like a river or freeze in the depths of time, It can light up the world around it, Or it can hide away in the folds of a forest...

If I lost this secret, a light in the darkness would go out.

-Lukas, Grattan Elementary

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Madeleine's Controlling Secret

My Secret

My secret is made of a knot in my stomach, Twisting and jerking, And then relaxing and settling With the thumps of my heart beat. I found it in the storage of my emotions, tingling with excitement to be found. My secret can make me do embarrassing things, my secret controls me like a puppeteer, the strings tugging on me and yet pulling my mouth shut, careful not to let the string loose. If I lost my secret the warmth and color would drain from my body and I would be stuck in a wet, cold, and dark hole.

-Madeleine, Grattan Elementary

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Secret Recipe for Becoming Invisible!

Take heed! If you follow Emma's recipe for becoming invisible you'll also need her recipe for becoming visible again!

Recipe For Invisibility

Ingredients: 3 gallons filtered water 1 8x8 foot glass pane 1 pound of snow from Antarctica of exactly 78°S, 35°E Latitude and Longitude collected at 8:13 pm on August 13 in a year that begins with 8 and ends with 13. Egg whites form 6 eggs (raw)

Tools: 1 brick 2 large pots of cauldrons Torches

Procedure: Pour the filtered water into one large pot or cauldron. Crush the glass with the brick until it is a fine powder. Then, put it all in the pot or cauldron with the water. Pout in the egg whites, too...Put the snow in the other large pot or cauldron. Attach the torches to the inside of the one with the snow, six inches above the snow level. Leave for 13 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes, and 13 seconds. then, remove the torches and put the snow in the other large pot or cauldron. Let the mixture sit for 1 day and one night exactly. Then put in a refrigerator for exactly one month. Under a full moon, at 12:00 am, pour all over yourself. You will turn invisible. Caution: the recipe for visibility, which is the only cure for invisibility, is hidden in a cave that doesn't exist, in a mountain that isn't really guarded by guards that aren't really there.

Recipe For Visibility (Found in a cave that doesn't exist, in a mountain that isn't real, guarded by guards that aren't really there)

Ingredients: 1 large stone 1 10x10 piece of iron 1 block of concrete 1 antique mahogany table 1 can of black paint 1 gallon milk

Tools: 1 pickaxe Electric saw 1 large pot or cauldron Fire Freezer

Procedure: Attack the stone with with the pickaxe until the stone becomes a fine dust. Melt the iron down and mix it with the dust in the large pot of cauldron. Do the same with the concrete. Pour in the milk-stir 13 times. Open the paint and pour in 1/8 every day for 8 days, at exactly 13:08 (1:08 pm.) then, cut the mahogany table into planks with the electric saw and soak them in the mixture for exactly 8 days, 8 hours, 8 minutes and 8 seconds exactly. Then take out the planks. Mix 13.8 times. Put the mixture in the freezer for 1.138 days. Defrost over the fire for 8.13 days ans stir 8 times. At 12:00 pm on the summer solstice pour all over yourself. You will become visible again. Caution: please do not try to steal any more important files or priceless artifacts. People can now see you, and you will be punished.

-Emma, Grattan Elementary

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