She knows what she is going to do, and has memorized it. Sienna is all set up, and about to begin her speech. “You need to know what you’re going to do, and how you’re going to do it,” the caller had said. She has been asked to make a few-minute speech about what she would do for her country as president. Sienna has been called from her quiet house into big, bustling Washington D.C. She pulls out her phone and makes an announcement on Twitter: “Heads up, everyone! Sienna Parker is running for president!” This means that she is eligible to run for president. It is her lifelong dream to become President of the United States.

On this day, in Chicago, a woman named Sienna Parker has just turned thirty-five. Everyone who wants to run for president is announcing it now, before it becomes too late. It is the year 2023, on November the sixteenth. Our adaptation of “The Raccoon’s Very Hard Choice” was written by Jack Mitchell and produced by Brendan O’Grady and Jack Mitchell, with vocal arrangements and direction by Jack Mitchell. And that is the raccoon that made the very hard choice, which was both. In the future, he will eat trash and fruits and vegetables. No one really cared because no one really pays attention to garbage. And he ate for one hour because the sun was rising. He broke little holes in the garbage can with his claws and he climbed up, opened the top and cannon-balled in. So he went inside and for two hours he ate. So he realized it doesn’t have to go through the back door and he can try both doors. After that he noticed that the front door was open. Then he forgot about going through the back door and instead he went in the front door. He smelled a lot of vegetables and fruits. He sniffed for good food like fruits and vegetables. Then he set off the next night and went close to a new house. And he went to the back door and ate everything in their refrigerator and then he left. He walked right in, but in this refrigerator it had junk food. The next night the raccoon set off to a new house (he had a hard time sleeping because in the morning, which is when all raccoons are sleeping, the humans were all screaming because they had nothing in their refrigerator, so he was half asleep half awake) he went straight to the back door and it was unlocked. When he got back to his home, he told his friends who told their parents and they let them eat that from now on. And ALL raccoons need to eat a STEADY diet of trash and fruits and vegetables.

The world is bigger than the raccoon! So, to keep him alive you need fruits and vegetables and to keep animals safe anywhere, ALL the raccoons need to eat trash. He thought about vegetables are good for your body and eating trash helps make not so much trash in the world so then he thought about which one is bigger. And if I choose one I don’t want it to be the wrong choice.” Well most raccoons are smart but this one was very, very smart. Two hours later he’d eaten everything in the refrigerator! But then he realized that he also had another favorite food, trash! “What should be my favorite one.

“What do those good-smelling foods taste like?” and he ate a strawberry and he loved it, so one minute later he’d eaten four whole containers of them. So, he slowly opened the door and what do you think he saw? Fruits and vegetables, that’s what he saw. He said, “It’s nice in here!” He saw the refrigerator and smelled something that he’d never smelled before. So he walked up the stairs and he noticed the sliding door was unlocked so he walked right in the back door that could slide open and shut. He was very curious of what was in the house, so that night he climbed up the stairs to the door.

There was a raccoon, and he loved eating garbage. Original Stories The Raccoon’s Very Hard Choice

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