Chapter 34: The beginning of a new era
Several weeks had passed since Grogar was defeated. Although Twilight decreed that the coronation should not be celebrated in Canterlot, she decided to wait for some time before celebrating it. Every creature was exhausted and had some wounds to heal, both physical and emotional.
But now, the right time had come. Twilight looked at her reflection on the mirror. She was wearing the gorgeous dress Rarity made for her, her mane picked up in a ponytail, ready to be crowned as ruler of Equestria. Who would have thought, after the whole ordeal they went through. But if facing Grogar brought something good, was that it gave her confidence. For the first time in forever, she was not doubting about her aptitude for a leader. She was fairly confident that she would be able to rule Equestria without any problem.
She took a deep breath and sighed with a smile on her face. Her ears perked up when she heard some knocks on the door.
“Come in!” Twilight said.
Twilight´s friends and Spike opened the door. They all wore their best garments.
“Heeey!” they exclaimed excitedly in chorus.
“How is our favourite princess doing?” Rainbow nudged her.
“I´m a bit tense but… pretty calm too.” she explained.
“Well, in case you´re not feeling good, I brought my relaxing apple juice. It helps me relax.” Applejack winked.
“Thank you, A.J.” Twilight picked up the bottle.
“What are you doing?! Don´t you see that you could ruin the dress?!” Rarity interfered between the two mares. “Talking about the dress, what do you think about it?” Rarity asked Twilight. “Is it perfect? Are you sure the cape isn´t too long?”
Twilight chuckled.
“It´s perfect, Rare.”
“And even if it was, that´s why I´m here. To hold it!” Spike lifted Twilight´s cape.
“I thought you were in charge of the fireworks.” Rainbow raised her eyebrow confused. “You know, conducting the dragons.”
“I am! But I can conduct them from up here.”
Rainbow rolled her eyes playfully. Rarity wiped the sweat from her forehead.
“See? I told you she would love it.” Fluttershy laid her hoof on her shoulder. “But you haven´t seen anything yet…” she raised her eyebrow playfully.
“Really?” Twilight followed Fluttershy´s game.
“Really.” Fluttershy giggled mischievously before replying.
“Ooooo! I´m so excited!” Pinkie Pie jumped excitedly. “We have many surprises in store for you! You won´t be disappointed!”
“I´m sure I won´t be.” Twilight said in reply.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. Twilight breathed in and out.
“Well. The time has come.”
“The time has come…” Rarity calmly repeated at first. Then, she gasped in realization. “The time has come! What are we doing? Let´s go! Let´s go! To your posts.”
The five mares rushed out the door, bumping against Celestia and Luna, which caused them to the ground on their backs. They gasped.
“Oh dear, we´re so sorry!” Fluttershy apologized while she and her friends helped them to get on four legs.
Celestia and Luna giggled.
“That´s alright, just be a little more careful.” Celestia reassured them.
The five mares smiled and rushed out. Celestia and Luna walked to Twilight and Spike.
“Who would have thought? Your friends being more anxious about the coronation than you are!” Luna exclaimed.
“Well… I´m still feeling butterflies in my stomach…” Twilight looked away while smiling nervously.
“On everypony´s defence, I´m just going to say that this is a pretty big change for all of us.” Spike raised his finger.
“Yeah…” Luna agreed with a somewhat saddened tone.
Twilight noticed the change in the two alicorns´ moods.
“Are you ok?” she asked worried.
“Yes, it´s just…” Celestia sniffed. “After all these years we´ve spent together, teaching and guiding you, and seeing how much you´ve grown from when we first met.” she shed some tears. “It feels so gratifying to see you wearing such a pretty dress prepared for your coronation.”
“And it is more than we expected, especially after we almost lost you…” Luna added.
Twilight´s eyes filled with tears as she smiled sweetly at them.
“Hey… It´s ok.” she hugged them both.
The two sisters returned the hug.
“May I join?” Spike asked smiling.
The two sisters nodded. Spike embraced their legs.
“We´re sorry for making such a fuss…” Celestia apologized.
“It´s just this is all so bittersweet.” Luna justified herself and her sister.
“Very understandable.” Twilight said. “Besides, we still have some minutes before the ceremony begins. See?” she pointed at a clock.
Spike bit his lip nervously.
“Uuuh… That clock is behind ten minutes.”
Twilight gasped.
“Oh no! I´d better get going!”
“Whoah whoah! Wait. You don´t want to trip over your dress, do you?” Spike stopped her by holding her dress´s cape.
Twilight giggled nervously.
“Of course.”
The three alicorns and dragon walked to the balcony´s door. Before opening it, Twilight stopped for a moment. She could feel her heartbeat elevating and the butterflies in her stomach got stronger. However, her companions gave her reassuring smiles, and the two alicorn sister´s held her wings.
“Ready?” Luna asked her.
Twilight took a deep breath in and sighed before nodding her head with a confident smile. Then, Celestia and Luna opened the gates.
Twilight walked to the balcony after Celestia and Luna. She could hear trumpets playing and birds singing. There was not a single murmur, just the silence of thousands of creatures waiting to see a new ruler come out. When she was out in the balcony, every creature cheered her.
She took a glance around. It had been a great idea to do the ceremony at her Ponyville´s castle. Not only was did it bring Twilight great memories, but many life-changing events for many creatures had happened here too. For example, the Young Six´s friendship was born here. So, it was pure symbolism.
She smiled as she saw every creature. She waved at Pinkie, Rarity, Rainbow and Applejack, who were sitting together on one of the many tables that were set up around Twilight´s castle. Fluttershy was near them, directing the singing of the birds. When she finished, she joined them.
However, she was so happy that she didn´t realize that she had stepped over the skirt of her dress, making her trip in front of every creature. Celestia, Luna and Spike widened their eyes. The music stopped playing abruptly. Some creatures bit their lips, others massaged their temples.
“We´re off to a good start…” Discord whispered to Twilight´s family.
To lessen the tension of the situation, Celestia started speaking once Luna and Spike had helped Twilight to get up.
“Creatures of all kind. We all gather here to witness one of the most important events in Equestria´s history. Nine years ago, I sent my dearest student to Ponyville so she could make friends to learn how valuable friendship is.”
“What none of us knew however, was that this mare along her friends would change Equestria forever.” Luna continued. “Over and over again, she and her friends have taught us to remain together, to have hope, to forgive, to be open to new possibilities…”
“And those lessons became more important than ever when Grogar attacked us. He almost took her away from us, but thanks to her lessons we were able to rise up and defeat Equestria´s greatest evil.”
“And today, after we healed from our wounds, the true ruler will be crowned.”
Celestia and Luna took off their crowns and combined them into one, which became Twilight´s new crown. Slowly, they laid it on her head.
Despite Twilight´s trip, everything was going well. That was, until Pinkie took a bottle of cider.
“Long live Princess Twilight!” she exclaimed at the top of her lungs as she shook the bottle.
Applejack gasped horrified.
“Pinkie no! The cider is filled with-”
But before she could finish her phrase, the bottle´s cap darted out. It went towards Twilight, who covered her wings as soon as she noticed the cap, but for her fortune, it didn´t hit her. Instead, it bounced off the crown and hit Smolder´s belly. Accidentally, the young dragon spit fire, lighting the fireworks in the process, which radiated in colors very near the princesses and Spike.
Every creature was shocked and nervous about how the coronation was going, specially the mane 6. Pinkie covered her mouth and laughed nervously while giving Applejack an apologetic smile.
“Ooops….”
“It´s a miracle none of those fireworks hit Twilight.” Rarity commented.
Rainbow gasped.
“Oh no.”
“What is it Rainbow?” Fluttershy asked concerned.
“I told the wonderbolts that just when the fireworks finished-”
Rainbow couldn´t finish her sentence, as the wonderbolts were already flying towards the balcony.
“That it was their sign…” Applejack ended her sentence.
“Yup.”
The wonderbolts did their stuntss but since the fireworks didn´t end, they had lots of trouble. One wonderbolt flew away from the fireworks and by doing so, it surprised Celestia and Luna, which caused them to drop the crown outside the balcony. Twilight jumped to get the crown on her head. Unfortunately, she jumped further than she should have, so she fell off the balcony. Every creature gasped in shock.
“She fell!” a pony exclaimed.
The crowd started to murmur. However, as soon as Twilight flew to the balcony, every creature started cheering and applauding.
“Long live princess Twilight!” Applejack raised her glass.
“Hail Twilight!” every creature followed her gesture.
Pinkie caught her canon and blew out confetti. Meanwhile, Twilight fixed her crown. Celestia and Luna hugged her once she was done.
“Congratulations.” Luna said in happy tears.
“Will I be able to ask you for help?” Twilight asked.
“Yes.” Celestia replied.
“And visit you?”
The two alicorns laughed.
After the banquet, it was present time. Every creature elaborated gifts for Equestria´s new ruler. For example, the changelings gave her the statue they had been making for so much time. After them, there came Starlight, Trixie, Sunburst and every student of the School of Friendship, along the CMC, Terramar, Gabby and Punja.
“As every creature, the three villains caught us by surprise while preparing our gifts.” Sunburst started explaining.
“And many of us had to start all over again!” Trixie continued. “Some were destroyed but others wanted to make a few changes…” she glanced slyly at the Young Six, the CMC, Gabby and Terramar.
“But we were all able to finish them!” the two unicorns said in chorus as they showed every student´s gift.
“Oh, they´re so beautiful! Thank you so much.” Twilight said as a sign of gratitude.
The group of friends high fived energetically. Having to remake the picture to add Grogar´s defeat and Gusty was a great idea.
“And that´s not everything!” Starlight took a mysterious book with her magic.
“What is it?” Twilight asked as she held it.
“Open it!” Starlight encouraged her.
Twilight opened the book. She gave out a small gasp and laughed.
“Oh! It´s a book with all our memories! Like the diary!”
“It was mine and Spike´s idea. You should also thank your friends, since they helped us to decide which memories to put.”
Her friends smiled at her. She was going to thank them, but she remembered something important.
“Oh! That reminds me.” she raised her eyebrow playfully at Spike, who tilted his head in curiosity.
She took her glass and hit it with a spoon to get every creature´s attention.
“Creatures of all kind. First of all, I want to thank all of you, not only for coming to my coronation but also for having helped me in my battle against Grogar. Without you, we wouldn´t be celebrating this.”
Every creature smiled at her.
“And neither I would be giving this gift to the creature I love the most.” Twilight handled a box to Spike.
“For me?” Spike asked.
Twilight nodded.
“Alright, let´s see what´s inside.” he said before opening the box.
He was confused when he saw a medal. He took it and read what it said.
“Royal advisor?”
“My first action as ruler of Equestria will be to assign Spike as my Royal Advisor.”
She put the medal on his neck.
“But Twilight… There are no Royal Advisors…”
“I know, but I can change that.”
Spike chuckled. Twilight held his claw.
“Spike. From the moment I hatched you, you´ve loved me, supported me and stayed by my side in the most difficult times, no matter if it was dangerous to you. You helped me see the light when I couldn´t. You´ve been not only a great assistant, you´ve been a great brother to me. Without you, I wouldn´t be here today. And to thank you, I assign you as my Royal Advisor in the same day of my coronation.”
Spike´s eyes filled with tears and hugged Twilight. Every creature left out an `aaw´, and like Spike, some had tears in his eyes, for example, Discord. However, he stopped when Fluttershy surrounded him with her wing. Then, the two rubbed their cheeks together.
Their hug was interrupted by Pinkie´s excitement.
“OOOOH! THE MOMENT´S FINALLY COME!”
“What moment?”
The girls and Spike shared mischievous smiles.
“The time to give you your gift.” Rarity explained.
Twilight blinked stunned.
“But I thought this was my final gift.” she said while looking at Starlight´s book.
“Hm hm. The surprises haven´t ended yet.” Fluttershy held her hoof and walked her out of the table.
“Wait. It´s not here?”
“Nope. We need to walk.” Rainbow explained.
“But what about the ceremony?”
“They agreed to give us a moment to spend together so we gave you our final gift.” Applejack explained.
Twilight looked at every creature worried but seeing them smiling reassured that she could leave.
“Alright, show me what you´ve got.”
After walking for some time, they stopped at a spot. There seemed to be a building covered in a huge blanket.
“We don´t know if you noticed this blanket in the distance.” Rarity told her.
“Actually, not. I was so busy helping to rebuild Canterlot´s castle and with the coronation that I didn´t notice.”
“Do you recognize the place we´re in?” Applejack asked.
“Well, we are where the Go-” Twilight stopped speaking from the shock. She covered her mouth while sobbing. “Wait, you didn´t…”
Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Applejack nodded at Fluttershy, Spike and Rainbow. The three flew to get the blanket off the mysterious building. What Twilight saw, left her in tears. The Golden Oak Library, where everything began and had their best moments together, and thought to have lost forever, was rebuilt! Not only that, it was bigger and had more space! And some new additions too.
“Welcome to the new Golden Oak´s Library!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed.
Twilight covered her mouth while tears of joy were running down her face.
“Knowing that you would leave Ponyville, we wanted to give you the best gift ever made!” Rarity exclaimed. “So, I contacted with Equestria´s best architects to rebuild the library! I helped to design the building.”
“As you can see, eveything´s as it was before!” Rainbow exclaimed happily. “But 20 per cent cooler!”
“We added some new things! We added crystals that resemble the Tree of Harmony´s to build symbols of all our adventures.” Fluttershy pointed at the hanging crystals resembling pictures. “This one for example symbolizes when we first met! And this one is when we defeated Grogar! Ironically, it was the most difficult one to make.” Fluttershy landed on the ground. “It was my idea.” she took the hair off her face. “At first, the architects wanted to do stained glasses, but I thought that was too cliché, so we did this instead! Because you´re the most original pony we know, every new little thing had to be as original.”
Twilight sniffed. Her ears perked up when she heard some knocks on one of the windows.
“Oh! There´s someone who´s been dying to see you.” Spike said while flying to the window.
When he opened, Owlowiscious opened his wings while smiling.
“Who!”
Twilight gasped.
“Owlowiscious!” she ran to him while the owl flied to herand hugged him. “Oh! I´m so happy to see you!”
Then, she looked at the library. They did all of this for her? Despite how close they were, it still felt like she didn´t deserve this.
“I-I don´t what to say.” she sobbed. “I´m so grateful for this! I don´t know how to thank you.”
She hugged all of them.
“Oh, you don´t have to.” Applejack. “We want your days before going to Canterlot to be the best. That´s the least thing we can do before you go.” Applejack sighed sadly while looking at the library. “It will be a bit empty after you go however.”
At that moment, Twilight had an idea.
“I think I know what my next act as new ruler of Equestria will be.”
“Really? Spit it out!” Rainbow told her.
“I decreet that at least once a month we reunite at my Ponyville´s castle. It will be the place of our Friendship meetings. And then, we´ll come to the library to read stories and sleep here.”
Everypony cheered.
“Oh yeah!” Rainbow exclaimed.
“Am I invited?” Spike asked playfully.
Twilight chuckled.
“Of course you are.”
Spike laughed and hugged Twilight.
“GROUP HUG!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed.
The group hugged each other. All of them were crying of joy. They´d never imagined themselves spending another moment at the very place where everything started.
“What are we waiting for? Let´s go inside there are lots of new books!” Applejack told her.
Twilight gasped excitedly. They all laughed as they entered the library.
The sun was starting to set, and it was starting to get windy. But it wasn´t a cold wind. It was a warm and friendly, not to mention that the leaves it carried were multicoloured like the rainbow. A gust of wind blew while the friends entered to the library.
And thus, the book closes.
I thought that it was going to be 35 chapters, but apparently, they were 34 chapters!
Wow.... I´m feeling so bittersweet right now (I´m crying in fact!). This has been the longest story I´ve ever written and the one I put the most effort and all my heart in (and it won´t be the last 
). Almost a year writing this story. I have this story in Word, and you know how long it is? 400 pages! It´s almost as if I wrote a MLP novel 
!
But the most important thing, thank you. Thank you all for taking some time to check my story and giving me all your support, comments and opinions. You don´t know how much that means to me 
Anyway, I´m talking more than I should . I have another story planned, but you´ll have to wait. I´m just about to begin the finals and I also need to plan the story. However, I might upload some blogs in the meantime
Stay tuned and once again, thank you for reading my story. I hope you enjoyed it 
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Well done, Dianabel! Well done!
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Still wished Twilight denied wanting to be ruler. :/
Happy that you made it to the ending but I have some questions to ask; whatever happened to Tirek, Cozy and Chrysalis after that took Grogar away? Aren't the Ponies celebrating too soon and did they show a memorial to the Ponies who lost their lives as they were sacrifice to Grogar who used them to come back to life? Also why did the Sirens went back to the human dimension instead of seeing if their species is still alive after they were banished?
BEST... FINALE... EVER!!!!!!!!
That was most amazing MLP FIM finale I have ever read even more better than how it ended in the show and thank you so much for giving the characters the respect and development they deserve especially Discord and for making Grogar a for real threat, despite that it was a bit long and I still don't know what happened to Tirek, Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow who cares! It's still better than what we got in the show! 
also 34 chapters are ok, eh I'm sure the The Magic of Friendship Grows epilogue can serve as chapter 35 also what's your next new story gonna be?
Wow, I wish now more than anything that the actual show finale had included that new Golden Oak Library. That was a surprise I didn't see coming!
Oh wow, quite the fun, funny & emotional finale, the inclusion of the Golden Oak at the end there brought tears to my eyes, well done!
Thanks for such a ride Dianabel!
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Thank you, love the gif
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1- I wanted Chrysalis´, Tirek´s and Cozy´s fate to be open to interpretation. But for me, they settled in Grogar´s cavern, since they had nowhere else to go, and make plans to try to take over the world that fail every time, kinda like Pinky and the Brain.
2- I didn´t think about it, actually, but good thought! Well, to be fair it passed a lot of time, months even, and fortunately nopony was harmed.
3- I didn´t think of that either! I think that the sirens are like Discord, one of their kind, and they went back because they had their life set there.
Hope to have clarified your questions
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Thanks to you, glad you enjoyed the story
Yeah, the Last Problem could serve as the epilogue. But with different designs for Spike and Twilight please!
It will be about Gusty´s story
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Loved the video, thank you
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You´re welcome
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Thanks
What kind of designs will they have? Also is Twilight immortal?
Oh! A Gusty the Great backstory also for the Pillars, Grogar, Discord, and Celestia, and Luna
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. As for Spike, I imagine him as tall majestic dragon and not a chad.
I imagine Twilight with the same size and with signs of aging like her friends, so nope, she isn´t inmortal
Yes! It will also have new characters
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Hey I'm trying to send you two pictures to show what you mean about Twilight and Spike, but I need to know how do you do that?
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You see the image icon in the comments? Clic on that (forgive me if I spelt it wrong), and put the image´s URL
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Sorry this is my first time doing this which one is the image icon?
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Her name is supposed to be "Pie" not "Blaze"
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Ooops
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Hey by the way I downloaded your stories to my files so I could always read them and believe this is the true finale, is that okay?
Also how did you get the idea that Gusty was probably Celestia and Luna's mother and nearly adopting Discord?
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Of course you can!
Oooh thank you so much...
The idea of Gusty being Celestia´s and Luna´s mother from Dr Wolf´s video about Gusty the Great, and as fro Discord.... I literally have no idea, it just came to me
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You're welcome and thanks!
Interesting, I guess having Gusty the Great as their mother probably makes more sense and it's probably better than them having a goddess as a mom besides they both were born a thousand years ago and were probably normal unicorns before becoming princesses and it doesn't matter where you got the idea for Discord and Grogar it's much more better than what we got in the actual show
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Oh I had so much fun writing him! One of my favourite characters in this story, definitely. I´ve always loved smart, calculative, intuitive, dangerous and serious villains, all what the season 9 premiere painted Grogar to be. He should have been the final enemy in my opinion.
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Glad you did and I know right! He could have been if they put a little effort and thought into the character even though writing villains can be a bit hard, but still!
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It can be hard, but it´s so muchc fun!
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Voicing them can be pretty fun too!
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Yaaas, definitely!
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Hey did you know that some guys who didn't like the finale were sending death threats to the MLP crew? If not than forget l asked
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Yeah, I remember that. I mean, I get that you didn´t like the finale, but come on... You don´t do that
By the way, I´ve decided to do a questions and answers. If you have any questions about myself, opinions about mlp and other stuff and etc, you can ask
. I´ve uploaded a bog for that but if it´s easier for you you can ask them via here.
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Yeah I'm not too fond of how MLP ended either, I may state my opinion, but wouldn't go so far to send death threats to anyone! even if it wasn't their best they still worked hard on the series
Cool! Where can I find it?
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If you click in my account, you can see information about my stories and there´s also a part where it says blogs. You click on them and it´s the first one.
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Well I have one question, you didn't think writing for Grogar was too cliche did you?
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No, on the contrary! Grogar´s the kind of villain I love seeing on media and I took many inspirations both from real life people and fictional characters. He might not be a very original villain, but I enjoyed writing him nonetheless.
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Oh great! Because I was just thinking that if Grogar were really real in the show that you or anyone else would find him to be a boring and stereotypical villain. Also I can tell by which characters you used in the story, which other characters and real life people were your inspiration?
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Fictional characters: Tywin Lannister, Frollo, Thanos, Azula and Lord Shen and a little of Tai Lung too.
As for real life people... Well basically every history´s dictator´s story begins the same! Damaged country due to several reasons and will try to fix it in a twisted way because of a dysfunctional personality. Grogar´s backstory is no different. Also, I don´t know if you remember, but in the chapter where the villains escape, it´s mentioned that Grogar made a bell with twelve heads. That´s a nod to a real legend from where I live!
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Impressive!
Every dictator including Hitler? and also scary!
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Yup.
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Hey Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Sorry I haven't been talking with you for a while, I've been busy so how you've been doing? how's your new stories coming? What are planning to do for the weekend?
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Hey
I don´t know what Memorial Day is, but thank you
Busy with finals, I don´t end until 22th june, but I think I passed the ones I did already. I´ve been studying these past weekends and haven´t been able to write. I still have to organize my new story! At least last saturday wa fun, since I watched Eurovision with my sister.
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Wow! you don't know what Memorial Day is! You should look it up sometime
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I just did. It´s a day when you honor soldiers that died in wars, am I right?
Sorry, I´m not American
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That's right and it's ok
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Thank you
So, how have you been?
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I'm great Mom's planning on throwing a bbq at my sister's new house
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Cool! I´ve just had a walk with my friend
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Well it is a beautiful day
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It rained a litle, but it was a nice weather
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Thanks, don't worry he still lives
I just read about Tywin Lannister and boy no wonder you were inspired while writing Grogar, the guy was ruthless and a horrible father too!
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It´s been a while how are you?