FINDING HOME
By Beatriz Kira

         Many people imagine an old woman like someone sweet and gentle, with white hair and old clothes, but Doris Papulova was different.

        Onee upon a time a young girl, her niekname was Dodo, entered an airplane to find a eoffee maehine. She left Russia.

        In 1889 Mrs. Papulova, Dodo, was 71 years old and lived with her wonderful purple parrot in downtown Paris, more speeifiealIy on Rue de La Clafe, near Euffel Tower.

        Apparent1y Doris was a normal person, exeept for the blue hair and her ridieulous clothes, but she had a terrible problem, she had amnesia. When Dodo was 19 years old her parents died in a ear aeeident and left her a big fortune. A niee and erazy doetor tried to erase Doris' memory, so she wouldn't be traumatised, but the doetor made a little mistake and Dodo got amnesia

 
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        Mrs. Papulova never had a job, she lived with her money in a smalI fIat with a lot of old things, beeause she forgot that she eould buy alI Paris. Dodo never married, beeause she forgot her boyfiiend' s names, and never had any kid, she was alone. When Doris was a young girl she was
beautiful, when she was 71 years old she was short and fat, she had big green eyes and a erooked nose. She wore ridieulous clothes beeause she liked to look like young girls. Doris wasn't smart or intelligent, she didn't know how to read or write and forgot
many words in French, but she was very nice and liked to talk so much, many times in Russian.

        The thing Doris most liked in her life was to go to the park in front ofher fIat with the most beautiful and coolest animal in the world, her purple parrot. Dodo liked to go to the park because it was always different, she got to know different people, but she always forgot them.The park was a really beautiful place, its name was Effel Tower, because it was near the Effel Tower. It had a lot of fIowers and trees, but it wasn't very big. The park had a smalllake that froze in the winter, couples liked to go there to skate on the frozen lake, and kids liked to go to Effel Park to play with small animaIs like squirrels. In the middle of the place, there was a little tent made ofyellow wood and in the tent, there was a white

 
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