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When my dad was five years old he was with two of his friends. His friends told my dad that if he threw a stone at a window it wouldn't break. When they passed my dad's friend Louie's house, my dad threw a little stone at the window. It smashed the window. My dad ran away and climbed up a big tree and hid there for a while. When he went home he went to bed. He couldn't sleep thinking about how much trouble he would get into. When his dad got home really late he told my dad never to do it again. The only trouble my dad ever went through was being scared.

By Thomas Stanoulis

Age 8