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Sarah is 17 years old .She lives in San Diego.On this summer holiday,Sarah goes Maldivler with her friends. At first midnight she sees a dream about shadows and she wakes up. She feels scary. Because in her dream the shadows says " everyone on the island will disappear and you will be left alone with your shadow. " Sarah generally doesn't believe dreams but this dream is too real. Two days later, she wants to take a rest when she wakes up there is no people on the island.Suddenly, she was taken aback.

And she remembers the dream she had two days ago. But she thinks" it is a dream " .But when she pinched herself she realized it wasn't a dream .Suddenly she sees her shadow and her shadow starts talking "I am coming from other World soShadows's World" Sarah screams and she said "who are you?". And shadow said" I am your source of life" And Sarah understood that's when she realized it's a message from the universe. And now begins a new life for her.

Sarah wanted to return home at first. She wanted to see her family again. Yet, she realized she couldn't leave the island easily. Since she was alone, Sarah thought about food, water and home to sleep in during the night. After she recovered from the initial shock, she tried to search the island for the cottage material, fruits and vegetables, and sources of water. The first thing that came to her mind was to cut the branches out of palm trees and to build the walls of her new home. She used leaves as a roof. She used thinner branches to make water bowls. For food, she noticed fresh coconuts on the same trees she wanted to cut.

She remembered that coconuts could be a nice source of milk and food. While she walked down the tropical forest, she found a big rock with which she could break coconuts.After a while, Sarah noticed that the sky started to change its colour. "The weather is becoming worse" she said it aloud even though noone could hear her. Because of that, she decided to build the cottage faster so she could hide there from the tempest. "Oh no!", she screamed, "It started to rain!"

It started heavily. Sarah was cold and started to cry. She wanted to stay in a warm place and just eat something, but she was in a island and there was nothing to do. She was so scared and also bored from this situation. She ran and ran in the island but she couldn't find anything to do, to eat and somewhere to go. She started to cry. Then suddemly someone who resembles to her mother came and said: "Don't worry , i am with you!" She took Sarah to her house and gave something to eat.

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Sarah felt happy and relaxed when she saw the woman. Then the rain stopped and the rainbow appeared. Finaly Sarah woke up and she understood that everything was just a dream. She thought for a while when she woke up and said to herself: "When i have a problem, i should face it.It challenges me.The problem makes me discover how strong and how brave i am.So,what am i going to do with my problem? That's up to me!"

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