Uns in fact she'd never been able to do what was all rested in nice, gold frames in their rooms, next to their Field Daytonsar
But Melissaknew her friends were just blowing smoke. After all those
And while Molinsa had plenty of the last two, she wished once that she got
Usually, things came oney to her own every one in while, Melissa
It was just about the height of that dam chin-up bar on the PE fold at school and he
Night after night, week after week, Melissa strained and und night after night, week
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up with her moody older brother and
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And so every years to out of her care Novo.
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ness Awards Mossa sat in the back of her pedes and cursed
Borawny muscles
and
just of ," said her "
of paper
of those silly "pieces of paper only to make herself proud
of that year's pe
Fitness Day, Molisen started training
found something that was just out of her on this time, it was in
TV with a big bowl of popcom and from hoor we crop imo har backyard and
Long after her friends had ingedeele homework and were noted in front of M.
grabbed hold of the lowest branch of the old oak tree
when she
woro her mother's gardering gloves (the ones will the miniature carrots all over
could barely fool the bark beneath her training hando,
her scrawny me arms to
pull her determined chin all the way up to the top of that branch
after wook, her muscles got a little stronger,
and her chin
grow a little closer, but she never got
quite far enough
By the time Prosidential Fitness Day rolled around again, Mollosa realized that she would
never do a chin-up, even after all that practice. But ill he participated in all of the other
friends Joshed and laughed about how this would be her year, but sul Mollosa didy't believe
them.
As friend after friend of the chin-up bar to a round of applause and plenty of
congratulations, Mollosa walted in line and hoped and prayed she would be up to the
she found that the bar folt cool and firm beneath her grasp. unlike the bark and gardening
glove mixture from home
Petrified of Pl. by Rusty Fischer
Although it is not clearly defined, what is the connotation of the phrase blowing smoke as it is used in
this story?
Ο Α.
groaning
B. laughing
C
fibbing
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crying
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