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| sure how it was going to work out, then why in the world did they make a twelve hour drive, I wondered. That's what I thought, but I kept the thoughts to myself and waited. |
| It seemed to take an eternity and oh how I had longed to go. But the time came when I heard my parent's car pull up into the gravel driveway. Three brand new shiny bicycles sat on top of the red station wagon; a boy's bike, fire engine red; and two girls' bikes, one sky blue, and the other one, royal blue. |
| I longed for the royal blue one. "Which one's mine?" I hollered. "When can I ride it?" |
| "You can have the royal blue one," answered Dad. My heart jumped with joy. It was the one that I had wanted! |
| "When can I ride it?" I asked again. |
| "I don't know. There's not much place to ride a bike here," her father replied. "And if we get the bikes down, I don't know that we'll be able to get them back up." |
| I adamantly thought to myself, "If you got them up there in the first place, you can do it again." |
| And then dad went on to say, "The main road's too curvy and dangerous, and you're not used to riding on gravel. The driveway isn't that long anyway." |
| Finally, I found my voice, "Yes I can ride on rocks. And the driveway is long enough," I declared. |
| "Oh, all right. I guess we can get 'em down and you can ride in the driveway." Finally a yes, I thought. |
| Dad, along with help from our relatives, got the bikes down, as I anxiously watched. |
| First came my brother's bike. Then my sister's bike. And then came mine. And finally, at last, I was on a bike again; my own bike. |
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