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“Young and old”

• “Dancing is not necessary” by Moushegh Baghdasaryan
• “My Brother” by David Martirosyan
• “Whether it’s easy to be a father” by Lusine Hakobyan
• “The wolf” by Lilit Hovhannisyan

“Dancing is not necessary”

We celebrated our grandmother's birthday without our parents. We were impatiently waiting as to when we would
sit on the table, to pop the champagne bottle. My brother and I made all the toasts as my parents weren't home.
All our toasts were like ones made by adults. Then, my grandmother put her cassette player on and started to dance the waltz. To be honest, my grandmother is not that thin, after her every jump, the downstairs neighbour was hitting the heater pipes. When the neighbour hit the pipes for the third time, my grandmother said that they didn't understand anything about art. And we took advantage of the fact that our neighbours didn't understand anything about art by devouring the meatcakes which my grandmother had prepared. And this is how we celebrated my grandmother's birthday.

Moushegh Baghdasaryan
10 years old

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“My Brother”

Yesterday, I gave my younger brother two candies. My brother likes candy very much, but he didn't eat them. He doesn't speak very well yet and he somehow asked me if I didn't have any more candies. I said no. My brother had already unwrapped a candy, looked sadly at it and gave it to my sister. He then unwrapped the other candy and gave it to my mother.
Then, he sat quietly in the corner. I was very embarrassed. I put my hand in my pocket and took out two more candies. My brother gave me one, but I didn't take it, so that he could eat the two.

David Martirosyan
9 years old

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“Whether it’s easy to be a father”

“Dad, is it easy to be the father of three?”
“It’s not easy, but it’s a pleasure.”
“Why?”
“It’s a pleasure when you have three children, 2 daughters and a son. It’s a pleasure to watch them grow up.”
“Dad, do you want to stay here?”
“Of course.”
“Then why are you going?”
“I’m going so it will be better.”
“What is the most previous thing to you in life?”
“Family.”
“If that’s true, why are you leaving us?”
“I’m not leaving. And I’m going because family is the most precious thing to me.”
“Dad, when will you come back?”
“As soon as possible.”
“And what will we do without you.”
“You will live.”
“I will miss you a lot.”
“I will miss you too.”

Lusine Hakobyan
11 years old

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“The wolf”

When I was young, I couldn't pronounce half of the letters. One time, I was telling the story of the “Red hat” -Led hat takes the dinnel, to go to glandmoler's house... the rolf said “well al you going, led hat...”
At that moment, I looked at my mother's angry face. I said with surprise.
“Mum, this rolf is so, no?...”

Lilit Hovhannisyan

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