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Oh,#her#full#name#is#not#Kimmi#Hall,!it's!Kimmificent!Antonia!Hall.!!Everyone!called!her!“Kimmi,”!but!
every!year,!at!the!very!start!of!the!year,!when!the!teachers!read!out!our!full!names!to!the!class,!we!all!
thought!she!had!the!weirdest!and!maybe!best!name!ever.!!Kimmificent!Antonia!Hall.!!!
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There!was!a!reason!for!this!name,!which!I!will!explain!later.!!!
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Kimmi#was#not#a#great#speller,!which!we!now!know!is!a!good!thing.!!She!was!also!not!very!good!at!
math,!since!every!time!the!teacher!assigned!a!particularly!hard!math!homework,!I!appeared,!magically,!at!
her!house!to!help!her.!!!She!would!simply!spell!my!name!and!…!poof!!…!I!would!appear!in!her!living!room!or!
bedroom!to!help!her!with!her!math!homework.!!
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I!wonder!if!we!would!have!been!friends!if!I!also!struggled!with!math.!!!
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Anyway,!after!a!while,!I!got!used!to!magically!appearing!in!Kimmi’s!living!room.!Even!though!I!was!only!
eight!years!old,!I!knew!she!had!a!special!power.!!No!one!else!seemed!to!be!able!to!spell!things!to!make!them!
appear.!!I!certainly!couldn't.!
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During#our#fourth#grade#spelling#bee,!one!of!the!teachers!was!hit!on!the!head!with!a!large!pLiLcLkLlLe,!
pickle,!which!seemed!to!fall!from!the!ceiling!as!soon!as!Kimmi!spelled!it!correctly.!!All!the!students!in!the!

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