Maycomb's Diary From To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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Dear Maycomb Journal, Stop please stop all these rumors about me it sucks. And im sick of people talking about me and sick of kids trying to use my house for entertainment. I’ve heard a couple rumors that are not true. The first rumor was that our family tree can kill you if you eat off of it and that is terrible to say , I have seen someone take a piece of gum from my tree and they didn't die. The second rumors was that I stabbed my father in the leg with a knife that is not even close to what happened, I was in my room and I was cutting up newspaper and I spilled red paint on my leg and my father came in and though I stabbed myself that's why he ran to the sheriff when the sheriff came in I had cleaned my pants and everything was nice and

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