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Well Who’d Have Thought
She’s just a snippet of a girl too
I bounced out of bed, the sun was shining, and I have no school work today. I’m going to do the one thing I love the most and that is, explore the countryside.
Let me introduce myself and tell you a story that you won’t believe, unless you were able to witness it with your very own eyes.
Hello my name is Cassandra, but I refuse to answer to anything but Cassie. I’m an 8 year old girl. I’m not sure why I mentioned that because seriously, who would call a boy Cassandra? Silly me!
So now you know who I am, let me share some of my life with you. I live in the Outback of the Northern Territory, in a country called Australia. This area is like the true blue wild west that you see in movies. It’s a harsh and unforgiving land.
The nearest town is a twelve hour drive from us and it’s hard travelling on all the corrugated gravel roads. Goes without saying that we don’t travel into town very often.
Mum and Dad own the land we live on, a 5 acre piece of red dirt and we farm pigs for human consumption. It’s how Dad earns enough money for us to survive out here. There are just the three of us as I have no siblings. Gets terribly lonely sometimes, with no one in my age group to play with. Luckily though I do love my own company, so…
