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A human

Gilbert Huang Myself

A human’s life is as an alien’s life. This human has two feet and hairs.
It lives in a house and eats with its hair. But actually we guess that
humans eat like that. A piece of paper told us how humans are.
A human goes to work every day even Saturday and Sunday
and never gets a holiday. It grabs things with its feet.

Gilbert Huang A human
Gilbert Huang, 9
Shanghai, China