Your assignment is to write a first-person story entitled “Life as a Blade of Grass." In your story, you will write an account of your journey through the digestive tract of a farm animal, from the mouth through the colon and out of the body. Your story should start with something like, "I was just standing there minding my own business when a hungry cow approached..."

One day a cow named Spots woke up. She noticed she was in a desert. She looked around. She saw there was no grass for her to eat, so she went back to sleep. The next day she was hungry, very hungry. All she saw was a cactus and dirt on the ground. The cactus had little spikes. There was only lizards and flies around. She had no food, no water and no friends. Spots was very sad. She got up and started to walk. She walked all day and the next day too. Finally she came to a farm. She wondered where the animals were. All she saw was a husband and wife. They only had cereal with no milk. It was dry. They wished they had milk. Spots asked if she could help by giving them some milk. They said yes and never went hungry again, neither did Spots the cow.

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