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Ginger Bread Person
LOL

Once upon a time there
was an
old lady
who loved to bake gingerbread.
She would bake gingerbread cookies,
cakes,
houses and gingerbread people,
all decorated with chocolate
and peppermint, caramel candies and colored frosting.

She lived with her husband on a farm at the edge of town.
The sweet spicy smell of gingerbread
brought children skipping and running to see what
would be offered that day.

Unfortunately the children gobbled up the treats so fast that
the old woman had
a hard time keeping her supply of flour and
spices to continue making the batches of gingerbread.

Sometimes she suspected little hands of having
reached through her kitchen
window because gingerbread pieces
and cookies would disappear
. One time a whole gingerbread house vanished mysteriously.

She told her husband, "Those naughty children are at it again.
They don't understand all they have
to do is knock on the door and I'll give them my gingerbread treats."

One day she made a special batch of gingerbread me
n because they were extra big. Unfortunately
for the last gingerbread man she ran out of batter
and he was half the size of the others.

She decorated the gingerbread men with care,
each having socks, shirt and pants of different colors.
When it came to the little gingerbread man she felt sorry
for him and gave him more color than the others.
"It doesn't matter he's small," she thought,
"He'll still be tasty.

Putting the rack on the kitchen windowsill
she left it there to cool
and went to finish her laundry.
The gingerbread men lay quietly,
their frosted eyes gazing at the sky with its puffy clouds.

At that moment a voice came from nowhere.
"Get up. Get up. Come with me."

Everyone looked to see who was speaking.

It was a butterfly flying just outside the window.
Butterflies are naturally beautiful,
but her wings were an exceptionally pretty marbled blue.

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