<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>Students are encouraged to write with new reward program.
SAINT THOMAS - Danielle Parson had an interesting story to tell, but she wasn't sure how listeners would react to it.
"I didn't really think anybody would like it,"<wm> Parson said.
But, in one moment, her classmates had her back, and that decision became her life's work.
Parson had to decide what kind of story she would tell.
As for her classmates, who are just like her, we all get to be the writers.
For starters, we have the power to choose what kind of story we tell to the world.
If we tell a tale of excitement and glamour, we become the princesses we all want to be.
If we tell</wm> the story of hardship and struggle, we become heroes.
If we tell the story of our own triumph