Mirabella was an inquisitive girl and she had a rather odd pastime- that of looking up words in a dictionary quite often. While other children were seen frolicking outside, she was seen either by the window or lying on her bed, intently studying a large blue hard covered Oxford dictionary. Every time there was a new word to learn, it was similar to finding a new location which was full of possibilities.
When Mirabella was in school one day, the teacher made a certain announcement, that there was going to be a spelling competition. Her classmates burst into laughter as she indicated her interest on representing her school but she wasn’t bothered. She had invested a lot of time in learning the roots, the implications, not only the definitions of the words, she had been preparing for a day like this and she knew she would make her school proud. On that day, and up to the last word, she was standing, and spelling the word out accurately one letter after another.
Then came the last word ‘serendipity’. Mirabella beamed, for less than a day ago she had memorized that word. She with great confidence, spelt the word correctly and the crowd burst into cheers. It was not only that she was the winner of the spelling bee; she had shown that her interest in words was the most powerful weapon for her, a magical kind of weapon, that would perhaps take her farther than she ever imagined.
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