This is my attempt of writing fiction story using the freewrite prompt.
My mother once told the story of how her gramp Al managed to survive during the depression times and the gold rush times. It was not easy to survive in those times as there was no entertainment, no communication devices and keeping family alive was not easy.
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They used to live in one town which was close to city. So they kind of get the police help from the city. However there was issue of getting raids from the bandits at night. She once told the story of how bandits tried to get in the house and loot the stuff. But grampa Al fought alone and turns out he was very strong mentally. He never gave up on his family, work.
Defeat word was not in the Al's dictionary.