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__**A Long Way from Home**__

__//**Setting**//__

Shores of Lake Huron, Ontario
__//**Characters**//__

Fred the Zebra Mussel
__//**Script**//__

//**Narrator**//: “Although the sun was shining and all seemed content on the shores of Lake Huron that warm July afternoon, Molly the Seagul and Tariq the Fish were not happy.”

**Molly**: “You know, it’s those darn Zebra mussels comin’ in here and taking over the place! They’re everywhere!”

**Tariq**: “Tell me about it, I can go anywhere without running...er...swimming into ‘em!,and they eat all the phytoplankton too!”

**Molly**: “It’s their fault, you know, that our watery homes are full of toxins’, with so many of them taking over, it’s waste city!..”

**Tariq**: “I know! Don’t they know to keep their toxins to themselves??!”

**Molly**: “You know some my sister’s seagull pups have been feeling really sick from the toxins, and acting funny too...blast those zebra mussels!!!!

//**Narrator:**// Fred, the Zebra mussel overhears their conversation and is quite offended.

**Fred:** “Hey! I can hear you talkin’ about me and my people...my mussels!”

**Molly:** “Ohh..uhhh..we weren’t talkin’ about zebra mussels, Fred, we were talkin’ about our friend...uhh... Frida Brussels”

**Fred:** “Oh nonsense...I know you were talkin’ about me and my folk. We’ve felt unwelcomed by you creatures ever since we arrived! But there’s a lot you don’t know about us!”

**Tariq**: “Oh, ya? Like what?”

**Fred:** “Well, we never wanted to come to the Great Lakes in the first place. We were taken out against our will. We’re originally from the Caspian Sea. I miss my old home and my family members and friends who were left behind.”

**Molly:** “So the humans must have brought you over! That’s horrible. To be taken away from your family and friends against your will? Tariq, how could we have been so insensitive?”

**Tariq:** “We didn’t know any better, Molly. But I guess now we do. It’s not the Zebra Mussels’ fault, it’s the humans’ fault!”

**Fred:** “What isn’t?”

//**Narrator:**// And they all laughed and watch the sun set over the lake together, as friends.

__//**Sources**//__

Great Lakes Information Centre (2011). //Zebra Mussels in the Great Lakes Region//. Retrieved at: http://www.great-lakes.net/envt/flora-fauna/invasive/zebra.html#overview