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Ammu did not have a puppy.
But she told everyone in school that she did.

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“My puppy’s name is Shankar,” she told Venu.

“Shankar eats bananas,” she told Abdul.

“Shankar is black,” she told Kumari.

“Shankar plays ball with me,” she told Unni.


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So Venu, Abdul, Kumari, and Unni told Ammu that they would come home.

To see Shankar. Ammu shook her head.

“You can’t,” she said.