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Recycling day. Like every week, the neighborhood collaborates delivering materials to specialized agents. And with Janey and her father it s not different. The truck arrives and she gives a box full of old papers to one of the men. But she realizes something is wrong. Her father, Harry, runs to the truck.

“Janey, stop!” he says. Harry begins to scatter the papers in the truck looking for something. “My article! I have to find it!”Janey remembers, then, that he is writing an article for the local newspaper. “Oh no, dad, I didn’t know. I'm so sorry” she says.

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Janey puts the old newspaper into a black recycling box. She runs and sees the truck.

“Wait!”, she says. And shequickly gives the box to one of the men. Harry is coming back to the house. He sees the recycling truck, and he sees Janey.

“It’s Friday!”, he says. “The newspaper! Oh, no!”

Harry chases after the truck.

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“Wait! Wait!”, he says.

Janey watches him. “What is he doing?” she thinks.

Harry jumps into the back of the truck.

“I want my newspaper!”, he says. “ Where’s my newspaper?”

But there are thousands of newspapers in the truck.

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Janey walks quickly from the house to the truck.

“Why is your newspaper important, Harry?” she asks. “It’s two days old.”

But Harry doesn’t hear her. He is thinking, “My million-dollar painting! Where is it?”

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