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 Willow’s Photo Selection:  The Lighthouse Story (cont.)
 BEFORE THE GLORY DAYS OF GOTH
 “I chose this because Goth (my pet rock) is in the story and the character is going to find   and then he’d go back to the party. He didn’t get much sleep, and in   on the door. When the clock struck 4 pm, Zack had enough. As he
 him cold and shivering in the bush near where the baseball went.  And the other people   the morning he slept all the way to 8 pm. The clock banged 8 to start   went out to start his shift, he unlocked the door of the spare room
 didn’t want him.”  his shift – he was late!!                                      and opened it. Seo bashed right into Zack.

               He ran to the lighthouse, wound up the bulb and wrote in the light-  CHAPTER 3
               house journal, and every three hours he did that and when morning   Seo just wouldn’t stop talking. She talked and talked and followed
               came he saw little chocolate eggs everywhere. Zack picked one up    Zack wherever he went – to the trail behind the lighthouse, in the
 THE LIGHTHOUSE   and ate it. It was chocolate!! It turns out that day was Easter, but   lighthouse the beach, even the kitchen in the middle of his shift.
               Zack didn’t know that yet, and he saw a little bunny hopping around   At11 pm he had enough. He hadn’t been able to sleep at all and
 STORY         with a basket full of eggs, chocolate eggs!! As Zack went outside   asked Seo what Easter was.
               to investigate he noticed his carrots that he left out for a snack had
 by Willow     been eaten. And when he went outside the rabbit started to talk to   CHAPTER 4
               him!! It turns out the rabbit’s name was Seo (pronounced sea-oh)

 CHAPTER 1     and she came in peace. Zack didn’t know what Easter was, so she     Seo was speechless, and after about 4 seconds Zack repeated “What
                                                                                   is Easter??” Slowly Seo said “Well, Easter is a holiday that bunnies
               was coming to tell him about Easter!! Zack stared at the little bun-
 Once upon a lighthouse there was a little girl named Jen, and when   ny named Seo. Was he dreaming? He pinched himself – he wasn’t   like me hide chocolate eggs in animals’ houses and humans’ houses,
 she was 17 she would work at that light house and take over.  As she   dreaming. The rabbit was waiting for him to say something, so he   like you. But if a human or animal does not believe in Easter then
 worked at that lighthouse day and night, she wrote in the lighthouse   opened his mouth and said….  we only have one Easter to change their mind. Please…change your
 journal and wound up the bulb.  But little did she know that the                  mind.” “I believe in Easter!!” “Yippee!” said Seo.  The end.
 mercury was hurting her, and one morning she woke up very sick.   CHAPTER 2       EPILOGUE
 She retired from the lighthouse when she was 67 and she wrote one   “So your name is Seo. You’re a rabbit that can talk and deliver Eas-
 last entry in the lighthouse journal, packed her bags and left.   ter eggs.”  Seo nodded her head.  Zack picked up Seo, put her in a   As for Jen, she lived an exciting life. And for Zack, Seo ended up
 When she was walking out to meet her sister, to drive her to her new   carrier, gave her enough food for a week and………...locked her in   being his pet and he married a lovely lady and had 3 children, and
                                                                                   Seo told his story to them and they all believed in Easter and they
 house, she met her replacement – her sister’s friend Zack. She told   the spare bedroom. The next morning Zack woke up to Seo banging   all worked in the lighthouse and Seo was special because he lived
 him what to do and left. After she was, gone Zack threw a big party   on the door of her carrier and gnawing on the strings.  By half past   forever with that family. Now the actual, the end.
 in the lighthouse keeper’s house/ his house.  He left it every 3 hours   nine she had gnawed the door of her carrier off, and was banging
 to wind up the lighthouse bulb and write in the lighthouse journal,

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