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Close your eyes and imagine leaving your home and traveling all the way around the world.

You would cross oceans, meet new people, try new foods, see new places, it would be an exciting

journey, even dangerous at times, but it would change the way you see everything.

Today we are going to learn about a woman who did just that and finished the journey faster than

anyone else in the world. This is a story of daring and adventure. This is the story of the fearless

Nelly Blie.

When Nelly Blie was little, she lived in a time when kids didn't go to school most of the day.

Instead they worked long days. Nelly had a big family with 15 brothers and sisters who all worked

in their father's mill. A mill is a place where wheat is ground into flower to make bread.

Here she learned to work hard and have determination. Determination is trying and trying and not

giving up until you finish something. Nelly loved to wear the colored pink. One day her friend said,

you wear so much pink we're going to call you pinky. From then on she had the name pinky.

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