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\\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1507;\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs24 One day a boy named Aang was born. The minute he was his parents knew he was special. He was the only boy with an arrow on his head. In the country of Ariple the boy was named Aang after the great divider of the nations fire, earth, water, and air. The ceremony to see if he was a waterbender or an airbender began. The people of the Water Tribe would dunk him in water and see if he could swim, and if he could he would be a waterbender. But the Southern Air Temple's way of finding out was different. They would blow air on the baby's face and if it did not cry then he was an airbender.\par \par The tests came out: he could not swim and cried when air was blown in his face. His parents were distraught. Their baby was a failure. He was not a bender.\par \par But his mom would not rest until she knew for a fact that her baby was not a bender. She would not give up hope. She insisted that the baby was given the earth bender test. Those were the most painful of all. For the earth a boulder was dropped on the baby and if it could live without a scratch it was an earthbender.\par \par So the earthbender test was given on poor little Aang and you could hear him scream from a mile away. \par \par He was not an earth bender. Again his mother insisted on the last test, the firebender test.\par \par It was when a fire bender test: the most painful test of all time. A fire bender throws fire at the baby\rquote s face and the baby should defend itself from it. \par \par Aang did block the fire and so he was a firebender. He was sent off to live with the firebenders and never seen again by his family.\par