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This is a story about a boy and an old man. This story is on 2113. This story takes place at United States of America. Boy’s name was Jack; he’s thirteen years old. He was curious about science technology.

            Jack was heading towards Professor John’s laboratory. John said he would take him to the past free of charge. Jack never experienced time machine because it was expensive. It was invented recently. Plus you needed permission from government. If you don’t, you would get caught by the police. It takes lot of money to get permission.

            He met Professor John, for first time. He said he was almost 70 years old. Jack couldn’t believe he was letting him on the time machine. Then John let him in to his laboratory and showed his time machine. It looked new, and it was painted red.

So this is a hilarious story about a teenage boy and an old unique man. This story takes place on 2113, this place is North America in the future but its split in half, so it is now East America, and West America, two different continents. This story mainly takes place at West America. So there was a teenage boy named Jack, he was thirteen years old and has a father from Canada and Mother from America. He has a happy personality and was curious about everything, especially about science technology.

            One day Jack was heading towards Professor John’s laboratory. He was invited there by him; he said he would take him back to the past free of charge. He never experienced the time machine because it was so expensive to ride on them. It was only invented ten years ago. Plus you needed a special permission from the government to go to future or past. If you don’t get permission, you would get caught by the police, and also it takes a lot of money to get permission so it there was a lot of things to do before using time machine. That’s why he couldn’t believe that he was able to go to the past for free.

            After few minutes he arrived at the laboratory, he first met Professor John, he looked old and tired, but as soon as he saw Jack, he looked happy and was smiling. He said he was almost 70 years old. It was hard to believe for Jack that he was letting him on the time machine. Then John let him in to his laboratory and showed Jack his time machine. It looked new, the machine was painted red, and the room where the time machine was placed was covered with some