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1 “Ellen you’ve got mail!” Mrs. Rosen shouted from the kitchen of their small rented house. The house was small but big enough for Mr. and Mrs. Rosen and Ellen. The house was a one-story house with one bathroom and two bedrooms one for Mr. and Mrs. Rosen and one room for Ellen. Ellen’s room was small but it had all her pictures from Copenhagen so she was happy. Their neighbors, the Yarshs were Jewish too. They had two kids, a boy named Oliver and a girl the same age as Ellen. Her name was Emma, Emma and Oliver Yarsh. Ellen ran in the room with Emma. “Who is it from?” asked Ellen. “I don’t know, but here it is.” Mrs. Rosen answered. Ellen ripped open the envelope hoping it would be an answer from the letter to her grandma who was in Sweden too. “Wow! Its from Annemarie!” Ellen yelled. “Read it out loud Ellen.” Mrs. Rosen said. “Dear Ellen,” Ellen began, “I hope you and your family have a nice home in Sweden, and your School has plays. I have the most wonderful news in the whole wide world. You won’t believe it, the war ended on May 7th, and you can come home now! The Nazis are gone. Do you remember wan Mrs. Was gone from her button shop, well she is back from Sweden. I do hope you can come. Mom and I kept your house nice and clean. I really hope to see you soon and so does Kirsti we all miss you, and I need to give you your necklace, you know the Star of David, I still have it. Love, Annemarie. Ellen looked at her mom happily, but sad at Emma. Emma asked, “Does this mean you’ll go back to Denmark?” “No not now we will say our goodbyes and tell Mrs. Ken that we do not need to stay in her house anymore since we didn’t actually buy the house, but soon we will go. Ellen why don’t you send Annemarie a letter and let her now we will come sometime next month okay.” Said Mrs. Rosen “Okay.” Said Ellen and she skipped off with Emma.

“Here you go, and I got two more if you need them." Said Mrs. Yarsh. “Thank you. Ellen you can use this luggage bag for your pajamas.” Said Mrs. Rosen. “Now hurry up, up there we are going to head out in 30 minutes so we don’t miss Dean’s boat.” Mr. Rosen said. “Mom who is Dean?” Ellen asked. “He is the man taking us to Gilleji. Why don’t you go say goodbye to Emma and meet me at the car.” Mrs. Rosen said. Ellen ran down the steps and through the door past the car and to Emma’s She rang the doorbell three times until Oliver came to the door. “What do you need?" He asked. “I need to speak to Emma It is important.” She answered. Oliver turned around went to the other room. In a couple seconds Emma was at the door. “Hi Ellen!” she said happily then Ellen gave her a big hug Emma new right away that her best friend was leaving. “I will write to you.” Emma said trying to cheer her up. “I will miss you so much.” Honk! Honk! Ellen’s dad and mom where waiting for her. She gave Emma one more hug and ran off to the car. The car was packed full of luggage. “ Ellen do you see all the seagulls in the air, we will be there soon.” Mrs. Rosen said. In a couple of minutes they arrived at the dock and a big man with a white beard and fishing boots was waving at them. “That’s Dean,” said Mrs. Rosen. When Ellen jumped out of the car “dean said hello. I will take your bags for you.” They got all there bags on a small green boat. Mrs. Rosen sat on the floor of the sm all because she didn’t like the water. It was a long rid to Gilleji when they got there they were by Henrick’s house. Ellen ran off to the house with her bags, let herself in the house in the house and went to one of the bedrooms and went right to bed.
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When Ellen woke up, she herd birds chirping. “Come Ellen, we need to leave, and hurry up. Remember we don’t have a car anymore so we have to walk to the train station.” Mrs. Rosen yelled up the steps. “That’s okay I wanted to walk anyway.” Ellen said. Ellen had a bit of oatmeal, and got her bags. It felt like hours walking to the train, but when they got their Ellen got her ticket and went onto the train as fast as possible. Her mom and dad soon joined her in seat 43. “I can’t wait to see Annemarie.”Ellen “Me too.” Answered Mrs. Rosen. It was over an hour to Copenhagen from Gilleji. The seat was starting to get uncomfortable for Ellen, but she didn’t mind when she looked out the window and noticed the train slowing down. Soon she could see familiar things. “There’s the old church, and look, it’s my old school.” Suddenly the train stopped and Ellen got off even faster than she got on. Then off came Mr. and Mrs. Rosen. They had to walk again thanks to the shortage of a car. Although Ellen’s arms were in pain from dragging her luggage, she said nothing. It was getting dark by the time they got to their apartment. Right when Ellen saw where they were she forgot her pain and ran straight to the Johansens’ room. She burst through the door and ran straight to Annemarie who was standing in the kitchen. Ellen gave her a giant hug. Then Annemarie said to Ellen, “turn around I have something for you.” Ellen turned around and waited. Annemarie took something from around her neck and hooked it around Ellen’s. As soon as Annemarie did this Ellen could fell the necklace around her neck and said “Thank you Annemarie.” The Rosens and the Johnsens celebrated with a nice little party, Ellen spent the night at Annemarie’s house. They ate pizza and had soda. When their party was over they all went to bed.
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