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My name is Stanley Yelnats. I lived
in New York for a long time. One day I started trading shares at the stock
market. After a few years I had made a lot of money. I decided to
move from New York to California. The trip to my new home went
straight through the desert. I had bought a stagecoach because I
had to take my whole things with me. The sun burnt down very hot.
Luckily I had taken enough water with me.
It was the fifth day on
the journey when the horses suddenly stopped. A
woman with a black cowboy hat and a gun stood in front of me and
shouted: "Hands up! Otherwise I'm going to kill you!"
Everything happened so fast. She pushed me out of the coach and escaped
with it. She robbed all my things and my entire fortune. I stayed
behind, stranded in the middle of the desert. After three days I was
so thirsty that I almost got crazy.
 Suddenly I saw a mountain formed
like a big thumb. Something made me climb up this mountain. On the
top I found water. I knew that would save my life at that moment. I
fell asleep, and when I woke up, I found myself lying in a hospital. I
had been rescued.
There in hospital a lot of people looked after me
and tried to heal me. And then I fell in love with a
nurse.
She was like an angel. Later we married.
In some way I have to
thank Kate Barlow.
Written
by Inka, Silke, Maurits and Katharina
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