First Telling:
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When Mark was younger, it seemed like he was going to be very successful en his life, but it didn’t happen that way. He made a lot of bad decisions. The same thing happened with Kirsten. She also seemed like she was going to be very successful, but she also made mistakes.
Mark liked Lady Gaga and wasted all of his time sending her wigs. If he had not wasted his time, he would have been able to study more. If he had not wasted all of his money, he would have been able to go to college. If he had studied more, he would have gotten better grades in school. If he had gotten better grades, he would have gone to college. But he didn’t do any of these things, and Mark became a poor man living on the street.
Kirsten went to college and studied engineering at a good university. After graduating, she became a famous engineer and was very successful in her work. Kirsten invented many ingenious machines that helped a lot of people, but she left her work in order to go to the ocean to save the whales. She ended up saving Mark and caring for him.
One day Mackenzie was walking in the city and saw Mark sitting in the street. She talked with Mark and asked him what had happened with his life.