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On a separate sheet of paper, rewrite the following excerpt making all necessary
corrections.

Looking for errors: Spelling, grammar, and content (Does the story flow? Are
there unnecessary parts to delete? Is information missing to make the story more
complete?)

So, Rick kept the key and one day in the fall, his grandmother stopped by their house.
Rick’s grandmother always wore a beautiful locket around her neck that was given to her
by her husband, Rick’s grandfather. Rick saw the locket which he had seen many times
before. “I thought, ‘Hey! I wonder if the key that I found in the summer fits that
locket?’”
Rick went up to his room, found the key, and brought it downstairs for his grandmother
to see.
“Oh, my! Oh, my!” she exclaimed. “Rick, honey, where did you ever find that key? I
haven’t seen it in over thirty years!”
It turned out that the key was lost by Rick’s grandmother just after her husband died, over
thirty-five years before.
Rick’s grandmother rubbed the key, put it into the locket and turned. The locket opened,
and a tiny diamond dove fell out into her hands. “Your grandfather gave me this
diamond on the day her left for the war. It was the last thing he ever gave to me. Thank
you, sweetie, you have made me very, very happy!”
This memorable event is something that my father will never forget. He is proud of
himself for finding the key, but he knows that he didn’t really do anything. “I loved
being the one to find the key, but, really, I am no hero. I just was in the right place at the
right time.” I am proud to be my father’s son because my father always does things to
make me proud. I think that I agree with him that he didn’t really do anything but be in
the right place at the right time, but, I believe it was destiny that it was him who found
that key and made my family so happy.