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ISU Task #1 Creative writing: I can't believe it when my mother announces that we are leaving Nova Scotia and heading clear across the country to Victoria, British Columbia. I'm going to be leaving behind all of my friends and the only home I have ever known, all for some grouchy 95-year-old grandfather I hardly remember. If moving isn't bad enough, i'm shocked when my mother says she will pay me to act as caregiver for my grandfather until school starts at the end of the summer. At least the pay she is offering beats what I would get flipping burgers at McDonald's. When I finally meet Arthur, I immediately have second thoughts about accepting this job instead of something in the fast food business. The old man totters along with the aid

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