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It was a sunny day with few clouds in the sky. Sarah Gamble was outside drawing messages in the mud when her mom called her inside.
“Wipe your feet and help me clean up for our guests. They’ll be here in about fifteen minutes.” Sarah had heard about her cousin Travis, but had only imagined the details of his personality. She dreamed of a strawberry blonde with cute freckles and a goofy smile. A boy with an imaginative brain and an adventurous spirit just like her.
At exactly four o’clock, the doorbell rang. Sarah smoothed her hair one last time and waited for the guests to scan in and identify themselves as family before being able to enter.
“Diana, how are you? Travis, you’ve gotten so big.” The boy standing in the doorway was a disappointment. He had straight brown hair with a dull face and a smell of stale Cheerios. Sarah was star struck, not knowing what to say.
“Why don’t you show Travis around the area, Sarah. After all, he’s never been to the coast.” Sarah’s mom gently pushed her out the door, leaving Sarah, blonde and bright, next to her cousin Travis, brown haired and boring.
The two ten year olds stood there a few moments before Sarah asked “Want to have an adventure?” Wishing with all her might he would be like her in spirit, she looked questioningly into her cousin’s eyes. Travis shrugged, dead eyed, and started to pick his nose.
“Maybe we could find something cool on the shore. Mom tells me never to go too far, but adventure is all about taking risks,

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