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'Guide To Vegas' As Told By An 11-Year-Old

11-year-old Dylan Frasure reading his essay - "A Guide to Las Vegas by an 11 year old"
Vegas Seven magazine/Twitter

11-year-old Dylan Frasure reading his essay - "A Guide to Las Vegas by an 11 year old"

It was Take Your Kid to Work Day, recently, and you may have seen the internet filled with adorable pictures of little ones eagerly accompanying their professional parents to work.

One of them even managed to accidentally take NPR off the air on the West Coast for a whole minute.

But NPR doesn’t get to have all the fun.

Vegas Seven Magazine also had a take-your-kid-to-work day. And Brittany Quintana’s 11-year old son, Dylan Frasure, thought he would take a stab at writing.

When we saw his completed work on Instagram, we had to have him on the program. Below is a transcript of part of his essay, titled "A Guide to Las Vegas by an 11-year-old."

People always think Las Vegas is all about strippers and slots, but they’re wrong. People seem to forget the true beauty of the city. They just take it as a dump with two things that are good about it. As an 11-year-old, you think, “Why should I listen to him? He’s just a kid.” But I’m a kid that noticed that the older you get, the more you think it’s a lousy, good-for-nothing place. If you stop to look, you will see the true passion in the city.

We 11-year-olds try to tell the world, "You’re beautiful." But some people try to bring you down, and you try to forget them. Some of you might say, “Easier said than done.” Yes, that’s true, but with help from your friends and family, it’s possible. You just need to calm down when you get name called. Make fun of it. Just the other day, I got an apple thrown at my head. I just picked it up and said, “Thank you for the afternoon snack.” That’s the trick. Not only surviving Vegas but surviving anywhere. You have to remain a cool cat. What I’m trying to say is, no matter where you are, there’s those types of people. So don’t say Las Vegas is bad because we have some of those people.

Dylan Frasure, sixth grade student, Del Webb Middle School 

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Prior to taking on the role of Broadcast Operations Manager in January 2021, Rachel was the senior producer of KNPR's State of Nevada program for 6 years. She helped compile newscasts and provided coverage for and about the people of Southern Nevada, as well as major events such as the October 1 shooting on the Las Vegas strip, protests of racial injustice, elections and more. Rachel graduated with a bachelor's degree of journalism and mass communications from New Mexico State University.