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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

Here are the winners for our spring Finish the Story Contest

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Since spring is finally here, we thought it would be fun to do a spring version of our finish-the-story contest.

Our previous finish-the-story contests were limited to children at Halloween. But this one was for anyone who wanted to participate.

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The beginning of the story

Here is the beginning of the story:

Samantha looked out the kitchen window and saw the morning sun shining bright.

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Gabby Brunache

Gabby Brunache

Courtesy of the Brunache family

Elementary school winner: Gabrielle Brunache, 10, Jamestown

Samantha, Josh and Alyssa just grew dinosaur eggs that come from plants!

The three of them knew that Jake would not be happy. They all thought, "What have we done?!"

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Jaclyn Crowder

Jaclyn Crowder

Courtesy of the Crowder family

Middle school winner: Jaclyn Crowder, 12 of Greensboro

In front of the trio were some crazy and unfamiliar plants. The one in the middle looked like a Venus fly trap, but it had five heads with snapping jaws. The connecting stems were moving closer to Samantha like necks.

The plant on the left looked like a large green pot with pink and purple tentacles wiggling out of the top.

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Samantha glanced back at the plant.

“Heck we should have checked what the seeds were,” said Jake.

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Angela Stearns, 10, Greensboro

“I don’t know!,” exclaimed Josh and Alyssa at the same time.

“Why did we laugh at the dinner table last week?! This is a horrible and tall situation,” said Samantha with a scared voice.

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Samantha looked at the plants again and said, “This one looks like a magic wand, and this one looks like a spell book, and these all look like ordinary apples!”

“Cool!” said Josh.

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They looked at the flowers and they were all dead because it rained last night and they had too much water so they had to re-plant the flowers. But they had an even better idea. The idea was to plant 150 flowers for all the people that had been effected by the coronavirus in Guilford County. They planted 50 roses, 50 sunflowers and 50 daisy for all the patients. Once all of the flowers were grown and nice and healthy, since they planted them for the patients, all of the patients became healthy just like the flowers did. And once everyone heard about what Samantha and her kids did everyone else started doing it and sooner or later the whole world was coronavirus free and the world was clean and all the humans were healthy.

Carolina Suco, 9, Greensboro

They had planted pizza seeds! There were so many pizzas.

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She picked up one of the plants and inspected it. Instead of beautiful flower petals or bright green leaves, there was a small bottle of unknown liquid nestled in the center. The leaves around it were all brown and crunchy. They sure looked dead. Samantha peered into the blue glass bottle. The top had a tiny, gold statue of a lion, its mouth open wide as if he were going to eat somebody. The water in the bottle has this weird grayish color with a hint of pink sloshing around inside. The other plants were similar, same liquid, different animal statues on top.

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Henry Regan, 8, Jamestown

In front of them they saw … tons of candy and toys! They were totally weirded out, so went inside to watch TV.

On the news they saw that a local theme park was going out of business. Josh thought “Maybe we could reopen the theme park!” So, he shared the idea with his family, and they thought it was a great idea.

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As they walked toward the garden they saw what looked like white puffy clouds. When they walked closer they looked like colorful clouds.

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“Oh my goodness!!!!!!!!!!!!!” the kids screamed in surprise. There were three gnomes working in the garden. They looked like those statues of garden gnomes you see in gardening catalogs. Only these weren’t decorations … they were REAL! They were tending to the plants, which had flowers that looked like a broken eggshell. One gnome had a wheelbarrow, another had a shovel, and the last had a watering can.

“W-w-w-what are you?” asked Alyssa. The gnomes continued working like they did not know that anyone else was there.

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They all looked down at the unknown plant; it had giant green leaves with a small blue blossom inside.

“Maybe we should leave it be for now, I’ll call Felicia in the morning,” said Samantha. Felicia was one of Samantha’s good friends and was a botanist, which means a very smart plant expert.

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They all ran inside and waited till Jake got home.

Then, at dinner Jake asked, “How was your day today? What did you do?”

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Vivian Byerly, fourth grade, Greensboro

“Wait a second ...” Alyssa said. “Have you guys ever played Sims 4?”

“Oh yeah, that game where you control human-like beings, right?“ Josh asked. ”Yeah yeah, well in Sims 4 if you fish in certain areas in the world you can get a cowplant seed, and it sort of looked like the mystery seed we planted.” Josh had an expression on his face like he now believed in unicorns, vampires, mermaids, etcetera. Their mom on the other hand thought her kids were somehow pranking her. But the closer she looked the more she thought they actually knew what they were talking about.

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Laura Goncharow Hannon, Cape Haze, Fla., formerly of Greensboro

“It’s not a question of what are we going to do with them,” Jake answered. “I think the question is, how did this happen in a week?”

The four family members stood in silence as they looked over the garden graced with the beautiful and miraculous plant growth.

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Libby Blythe, no age listed, Greensboro

Jake would be working late, so the family decided to stay inside the remainder of the day.

Next morning during breakfast Josh said, "I had the weirdest dream last night." "About what,"

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Mae Brown, no age or city listed

"What are we going to do with these?"

Josh says, "It looks like green snakes growing green leaves."

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