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“You ok miss!?” asked another.

But all the world seemed to be spinning with her. Before she could answer, she saw a man kissing another… man! Whoa! She didn’t know what to make of it. That was new to her and the way it seemed natural to everybody else. Then a well-dressed lady in the box said that a new type of phone had just been released at the beginning of March 2019? 2019???? Then everything else she said was just blah, blah, blah for Sam. She had no idea what a phone was but that wasn’t the problem. The year was. 2019???

How? She was born in 1702. It was 1719 now and had just turned 17.This couldn’t be happening. She wasn’t 300 years old hahaha. She was 17. She had to get out and calm her shaky nerves. She went back to the quietness of the park and found a bench. She sat there, thinking. It was almost dawn when she decided that she must have traveled in time. She had no clue how or how to go back. The last thing she remembered before all the strangeness was the silver moon and the oak in the garden that seemed to have whispered to her. Then she was here, wherever here was. Or maybe it was the same town, her town, just the year was different. Yeah, that must have been what happened.

“Well”, she thought, “I wanted to see the world, guess this is my chance, so I'd better make the best of it!”

The first rays of light were caressing her skin. She was hungry and thirsty. She wasn’t sure which was worse. She found a spring in the park and she quenched her thirst. Now to do something about her hunger. She was sure she wouldn’t find food hanging from the trees, so she had to find some.

She got up from the bench and headed towards the big buildings. When she got there, they seemed less scary than during the night. But