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Tonight we're going to learn about one of the greatest presidents in American history.

Although he started out with very little and had a very hard childhood, he worked very hard

to become the most powerful man in the United States of America. This is the story of Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham was born in Kentucky to parents who were very poor at the time. They lived very far

out in the middle of the woods in a very small log cabin his father had built.

The woods were full of wild animals and no one else lived nearby.

Every night, Abe and his family slept on a hard dirt floor.

When Abe was old enough to work, every day he and his father, Thomas, ate a small breakfast,

picked up their axes and ventured off into the thick woods to chop down trees to make the land flat

for farming. It was very hard work and they spent all day doing this.

Abe became very strong chopping wood. He also began to grow very tall for his age.

So much that his pants became too small because his parents couldn't afford to buy him new ones.

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