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Dream Train



                            By: Ananta Zulfa Alfathin


                       A bright morning, a calm atmosphere surrounds a

               house  in  the  interior  of  the  village,  there  lives  a  girl
               named  Aruna  with  her  grandmother.  Aruna  sat  on  the

               terrace  of the house with her grandmother while eating
               dishes  such  as  hot  soup.  Her  grandmother  told  Aruna,

               "Does Aruna know that there is a legend that says there
               are  chariots  flying  in  the  sky?". Aruna shook her head

               while answering "I don't know grandma, is there really?".


                       "Maybe, 's said that the carriage can take us to the

               sky at night, but yes...'s still just legend. Like the legend

               of  the  first  man  who  stepped  on  the  moon,"  said  the
               grandmother.  "Have  humans  ever  been  to  the  moon,

               Grandma?" asked Aruna.


                       "Yes..."  her  grandmother  replied  with  a  smile.
               "Decades  ago,  a  man  landed  on  the  moon for the first

               time,  and  the  news  spread  widely among mankind, his



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