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Once there was a mama duck waiting for her six eggs to 

hatch.

When it came time for the eggs to hatch, each of them 

cracked open one by one until there was only one egg left. 

But this egg was different than all of the rest. It was 

ginormous compared to the other eggs. This egg was also 

special because it did not have a yellow shell, but a white 

shell. At last, the final duckling hatched; however, like 

the egg, this duckling was different. 

      Unlike the other yellow ducklings, this duckling had 

a smooth gray fur with the shiniest gray, webbed feet 

that his sister had ever seen.

“Why is he so ugly?” one duckling asked.

“I think he’s beautiful,” his sister defended.

    All of the ducklings poked fun of the “ugly duckling”, 

except his sister. She saw the duckling as a beauty; in 

fact she had magical powers so that she sees the 

beauty in everything. 

Everyday his sister would take a walk to a magical pond, 

where the reflection showed the beauty inside all of 

the animals. However, only animals with magical powers 

knew about this pond and visited it. One day, his sister 

took the “ugly duckling” with her to the magical pond. 

There she would show him his true beauty, so he would 

realize that he is not the “ugly duckling”. 

When she took her brother to the pond, he was 

amazed of his beauty, but other siblings made fun 

of him.

“We can’t play with ducks that are ugly,” 

another duckling said.   The duckling 

began to cry and he felt so bad about 

himself that he decided to run away.

When the duckling left, his sister was 

heartbroken. However, all of his other siblings 

laughed and played without him. Her days were 

filled with sadness and sorrow, and every day she 

would go visit the pond, hoping that he would 

return. His sister missed playing with the duckling 

and wondered if he would come home again. 

One day, his sister went to the magical pond like 

normal, but she saw a figure in the distance. The 

figure looked like a graceful white swan; first she 

had thought that maybe it was her “ugly duckling”, 

but she knew that he would never look that 

graceful. As the figure became more apparent as it 

grew near and the figure finally approached her, 

she realized the graceful figure was her “ugly 

duckling”. 

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