[originaltext]M: Hi, Janet, you’re so lucky to be done with your final exams an

M: Hi, Janet, you’re so lucky to be done with your final exams and term paper. I still have two more finals to take.
W: Really?
M: Yeah, so what’re you doing this summer, anything special?
W: Well, actually yeah. My parents have always liked taking my sister and me to different places in the United States. You know, places with historical significance. I guess they wanted to reinforce the stuff we learned in school about history. And so even though we are older now, they still do once in a while.
M: Oh, so where are you going this summer?
W: Well, this summer. It’s finally going to be Gettysburg.
M: Finally? You mean they never took you there yet? I mean Gettysburg. It’s probably the most famous civil war site in the country. It’s only a couple of hours away. I think that would be one of the first places that they’ve taken you. I have been there a couple of times.
W: We were gonna to be about ten, well, no, it was exactly ten years ago. But I don’t know. Something happened, I cannot remember what...
M: Something changed your plans.
W: Yeah, don’t ask me what it was, but we ended up not going anywhere that year. I hope that doesn’t happen again this year. I wrote a paper about Gettysburg last semester for a history class. I was to make a thorough investigation on the political situation in the United States right after the battle at Gettysburg, so I’m eager to see the place.