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What I want to be? Well I'd always been a lazy kid. Slow to work and quick to fail. I

drifted aimless through my classes like a ship without its sail. So Miss Adams held

me after class, the clock read half past three. She said it's time to buckle down and

decide what I want to be. She said a doctor or a lawyer would be fine choices true, an

engineer or astronaut would be fine choices too. What you choose is up to you but be sure

she said to dedicate until your dream all the brains inside your head. Let nobody deny

you or tell you no or never for the choice you make of what to be is yours and yours

forever. While I bit my lip and closed my eyes and think and thunk and thought until

finally it came to me the best idea I ever got. I said hey teach I have it a future I chose

with care my dream of dreams I want to be a giant grizzly bear. Well Miss Adams she got

pretty mad. She was boiling like an egg. She said not listen here young man and that's

when I bid her leg. She started thrashing pretty good but grizzlies have strong jaws. So

I held on with my grizzly mouth and swung my giant grizzly paws. While she gave a hoot

and holler then tumbled backwards to the floor and it grizzly knows when he's want to

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