Analysis Of Shut Down The Opium Factory By Esperanza

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Matt, the new leader of opium, wants to make the country of Opium great again. He wants the doctors to find a way to free the eejit. He also wants to dig up the poppy fields and plant normal crops in them. Another thing that Matt wants to do is he want to shut down the Opium factory. Matt was told from Esperanza Mendoza to shut down the Opium Factory. Esperanza wants to shut down the factory because she has found that Carlos Porzingis and Jorge Antetokounmpo have been dealing with the drugs that were made from the Opium factory. She found out that they had been using the drugs at night and that they had been treating the orphans bad when they were using the drug. She also found out that they had been dealing it out to other countries from

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