My name is Elizabeth Porter, ever since a was a child everyone around would talk about making wishes and having most of them come true in a blink of an eye. Well for me that was the opposite, my family had stopped making wishes altogether I never knew the reason why. But until one day I came close at the age of 5 I was with my parent on a family vacation and was walking around the plaza where their a cobblestone walkway and an amazing shop outside that would sell spices, food, and trinkets. As we keep walking my parents stop a shop and as I turn to look away from the site of my mother, I saw this beautiful large sculpture water fountain that had a cupid on the top with tiny wings and blowing a horn. With sculptured ribbon around it and to another status on either side of a man and women reaching out to teach each other's hand. It was fanstatic. I turn back and tugged on my mother's skirt asking if I could have a penny. She turns and looks at me, "Well of course my dear.", as she hands it to me I rush over to put it in the fountain to make my wish. As my mother realized what I was doing she shouted, "No, Elizabeth, don't do it!!", I stopped and look back and asked, "Why, mother?". My mother and father rush to me and said it was dangerous to make any wishes. And if I wanted some all I need to do was ask. That day I have grown more interested in making my wish no matter what the cost was, or if there was any.

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