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Find your next little wonder.

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Your place, its true story, told for a young reader

Send me a real place: a harbour wall, a lighthouse, a battlefield, a street your family came from. I go to the record that owns it, then write its true story for a young reader, 600 to 900 words, that holds to the last line. What you get: the story as a clean text file and a print-ready PDF, to read aloud or keep. Named sources at the foot, every time, so you can check any line yourself. Why me: I have told the story of Just Nuisance, the great dog of Simons Town; the Noon Gun on Signal Hill in Cape Town; and the old hedge at Kirstenbosch. I do not invent a detail, a date, or an atmosphere I cannot source. If the place has no story I can verify, I say so and you owe nothing. Free first answer: send the place and I tell you within a day whether it has a real story I can source. Asking costs nothing. Three-day delivery, two revisions included.

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