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Winners cast a spell at Gainesville bee
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Gus Kaufman listens as his word is read aloud to him Friday afternoon during the Gainesville City Schools’ spelling bee at Gainesville Middle School.
For one day, Gainesville Middle School student Adeline Bryant got to spell victory as “A-S-Y-L-U-M.” “Asylum” was her winning word at Friday’s annual spelling bee, after successfully outspelling 22 other middle school students in only six rounds. “I feel really bad for all the kids who studied a lot, because I really don’t study that much,” the 12-year-old said. “I think it’s just because I read a lot of books.