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She loves reading You may think that I love reading. Do you want to know why? Are you interested in my story? There was a painter in the woods. He loved his granddaughter. When she was four years old, he painted her and put the picture on the wall. Everyone said the picture resembled her. However, no one thought that the girl in the picture was alive and had feelings. The girl in the picture had been for two years. She was a little bored. “Hello. How are you? ” The painter said to her every morning. She knew his granddaughter had been dead for a few months. The painter started to talk to her after his precious girl had died. Honestly, she wanted to reply him, but she couldn’t, of course. One day, he was crying. That was not the first time. The girl in the picture knew that he had not eaten very much. He was full of pain… She strongly wanted to help him; she wished she had been his real granddaughter. Probably, it was winter. “It is very cold! Be careful not to catch a cold. Good night. ” He said to her. After he had gone to the bedroom, she found the window left open. This didn’t matter because she couldn’t feel wind or catch a cold. But she was eager to keep what the painter said. “I want to close the window. I want…” She was occupied by the urge. She doesn’t remember the exact moment when //she felt the wind.// She couldn’t believe, but it was real. She found herself stand by the window. “I walked to the window?” she thought. Then she felt not only the wind but also the cold wooden floor and soft curtains. She understood; she got out of the picture! “This is the wind… It’s not so bad.” Suddenly she found out she could speak and looked back to the picture. The picture lost its owner. There was a cheap, black chair. “I think I will help him instead of you.” Now the girl is 18 years old. The painter is already dead. And then, no one in the world knows about her. Only the painter was her family. But she isn’t very sad. She comes to love reading. Everyone in the books; who reminds her of her old days in the picture, is her family, she believes.

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