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“Foxey Lady”

Hendrix Parson lives in a small town in Alabama. The town was called Maple Wood. Hendrix wants to be a musician, but he has too much stage fright(tone word) to even go up to his parents to sing and play guitar. He has been wanting to be a musician ever since he saw Ray Charles when he was ten. He thought Mr. Charles was an inspiration (tone word) to future rock and roll. He went to school at Garfield High. There were not many black people in his school, but he was one of them. Some of the teenagers made fun of Hendrix, but there was one teenager that loved Hendrix. John Smith. John Smith would hang out with Hendrix everyday. Some teenagers made fun of John, but John did not care, he loved Hendrix as a friend. It has been like that for seven years. Today was August 11, 1957. Hendrix went to bed at eight o'clock and 4 hours later wakes up to sneak (tone word) into his living room to play his father's 1936 fender stratocaster. It was worth a lot of money so Hendrix was careful with it. He naturally very good at the guitar. An hour before sunrise Hendrix would put away the guitar and make his family breakfast. Hendrix would always leave an hour earlier than when school starts(consonance), to write in his journal. His journal is where he wrote down ideas for songs he would come up with. Sometimes John would meet Hendrix in the parking lot to smoke some(consonance) cigarettes. Once the school day started, Hendrix would become serious(tone word) because his dad would

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