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Marah

Birth month: August

Age: 11

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite Food: Chinese

Favorite Music: Top 40

Favorite Books: Harry Potter Series ~J.K. Rowling and Little House on the Prairie Series ~Laura Ingalls Wilder

Favorite Activities: Reading, spending time with friends & family, writing poems, jewlery making, shopping

Favorite thing about the boat: Riding the big waves on the trampolines and swinging on the bosun’s chair.

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