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Todays story is for intermediate learners.
The name of the story is the hunt.
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Just a warning Todays story contains discussion about having sex and certain sexual practices.
Okay, ill just explain some words that are in todays story a baptism b a p t I s m is a ceremony for newly born babies when a baby is baptized b a p t I s e a priest pours water over their head and gives the baby a name.
In Christianity, all children are baptized the womb womb or uterus is a part of the body near the stomach where babies grow before they are born.
Babies start to grow in the womb when a sperm cell meets an egg and fertilizes it.
If this does not happen, then usually about once a month, the lining of the womb, the inside of it, will leave the body in the form of blood.
This is called a period.
A hunter gatherer is a person who survives by hunting animals and gathering food.
Originally, all humans were hunter gatherers.
We lived in small societies and did not farm food.
Nowadays there are few hunter gatherer societies left.
An example of a hunter gatherer society is the Hadza people of Tanzania.
When you hit rock bottom you enter the worst part of your life.
Rock bottom is when everything is going very bad for you.
Usually when someone hits rock bottom it is due to serious problems like addiction, death of a partner, or losing a job.