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Article: Eva's eggflip.(Short Story)
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- Highlights for Children
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- December 1, 2003
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"Over easy or scrambled?" asked Dad.
"What do you think?" Eva teased. But inside, her stomach flipped more than the eggs in the pan. Today she'd head back to the half-pipe, the packed-snow structure built especially for snowboarders.
"Scrambled it is," Dad said, interrupting her thoughts.
Eva always ate her eggs scrambled, but Dad always asked anyway. Today the eggs felt thick and tasteless in her mouth.
Her coach, Jeff, had told her, "If you want to compete again, you'll have to get back in the half-pipe." Eva sighed. She hadn't been in it since she'd fallen last winter.
Eva hadn't been in the half-pipe since she'd fallen.
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