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    The Little Match Girl Story

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    On a cold New Year's Eve, a poor little girl was selling matches on the street to earn money for food. As night fell and everyone returned to their warm homes, she was left alone in an alley, cold and hungry. To stay warm, she lit her remaining matches, each of which caused her to see a comforting vision. When she lit her final match, she saw her deceased grandmother, the only person who had ever shown her kindness. The next morning, passersby discovered the little match girl had frozen to death in the alley.

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    The Little Match Girl Story

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    On a cold New Year's Eve, a poor little girl was selling matches on the street to earn money for food. As night fell and everyone returned to their warm homes, she was left alone in an alley, cold and hungry. To stay warm, she lit her remaining matches, each of which caused her to see a comforting vision. When she lit her final match, she saw her deceased grandmother, the only person who had ever shown her kindness. The next morning, passersby discovered the little match girl had frozen to death in the alley.

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    On a cold New Year's Eve, a poor little girl was selling matches on the street to earn money for food. As night fell and everyone returned to their warm homes, she was left alone in an alley, cold and hungry. To stay warm, she lit her remaining matches, each of which caused her to see a comforting vision. When she lit her final match, she saw her deceased grandmother, the only person who had ever shown her kindness. The next morning, passersby discovered the little match girl had frozen to death in the alley.

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    The Little Match Girl Story

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    Abriel
    On a cold New Year's Eve, a poor little girl was selling matches on the street to earn money for food. As night fell and everyone returned to their warm homes, she was left alone in an alley, cold and hungry. To stay warm, she lit her remaining matches, each of which caused her to see a comforting vision. When she lit her final match, she saw her deceased grandmother, the only person who had ever shown her kindness. The next morning, passersby discovered the little match girl had frozen to death in the alley.

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    1The Little Match Girl

    On a freezing cold New Year’s Eve, a poor little girl


    was selling matches on the streets. She takes shelter
    after many attempts to gather money for food. After
    everyone went to there warm homes she found her
    self alone in a corner of an ally, half starved and
    suffering with the first signs of hypothermia. She
    sees a shooting star, and remembers such stars mean
    someone is dying.
    She begins to light her unsold matches to stay warm.
    In their light, she sees several lovely visions
    including a Christmas tree and a holiday feast.
    As she lights her last match, she sees her
    grandmother, the only person to have treated her
    with love and kindness but was no longer alive.
    The little match girl dies. The next morning, passers-
    by find the dead child in the corner.

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    “But in the corner, at the cold hour of dawn, sat the


    poor girl, with rosy cheeks and with a smiling
    mouth, leaning against the wall--frozen to death
    on the last evening of the old year. Stiff and stark sat
    the child there with her matches, of which one
    bundle had been burnt.
    "She wanted to warm herself," people said”

    This is a great old story but I always felt sick reading


    it or watching the movie.
    What I learned from this story is that when you feel
    pushed into a corner to die you must find a way to
    get out of that corner....the fight or flight...the little
    match girl should of RAN out of her surroundings.
    Like the ugly ducking did in his story.

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