Pebbles The sisters couldn’t believe Sophia’s precious hamster was gone! B y Gabrielle Nappi
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here’s something wrong with Pebbles!” We gathered around Pebbles’ home, peering in to see the small, still form.
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ebbles had become a member of our family two years earlier when I had given him to Sophia as a birthday present. Sophia had spent hours making mazes for him to explore and letting him scamper around
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her room for daily exercise. On sunny afternoons you could find the two of them outside, Sophia watching him frolic about through the lawn. Pebbles had never shown signs of tiredness or illness. Looking down at him now, still as death, I couldn’t believe it. Sophia reached into the cage to draw him out, her hand trembling from the sobs that slowly began to build. Between sobs Sophia
