Book Summary: The Alchemist

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It's difficult to wait for something that you are excited for because you wish it would come faster. But it's good to wait because then you will enjoy it more than if it had come faster. For example in a book called The Alchemist it is about a young shepherd boy who has a dream that he would find a treasure in front of the Pyramids of Giza. So he sets out to find it, and meets many people along the way who help him on his journey like a gypsy , a king ,a crystal merchant, and an alchemist. But when he reaches the pyramids he finds that the gold and silver he had been seeking was not at the Pyramids but at a desolate and ruined church under a tree where he had had the dream. That's when he realized it wasn't the gold or the silver under the

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