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=//The Message//=

//One day, in the midst of a small grove, a paper fluttered over the ground. It could have been a piece of litter, a reciept someone haden't thrown away but thrown it on the ground, instead. But the little paper did not contain grocery items, it revealed a message:

Give this to the first person you see, anyone who missuses it will be punished for eternity: Go north, then west, then east, then south. Find Blueberry Road, then travel down there until you come to a house.

Who should pick up the message, but a peculiar little woodmouse who longed for adventure. He read the note, then decided// //he should be the one to follow the directions. He set off.

Later, he came to a small house, and decided that this should be the house described in the message. But he couldn't just walk up to the house, and knock on the door, as a mouse anyway. So he thought of what he should do, and he found a person, sitting on a swing in the playground behind the house. He went over to that person, and he put the note on his lap.

It was a small child, no bigger than a blueberry. He picked up the small paper lying in his lap. He read it and then he wondered what the message meant. He decided that since he was just a small child he couldn't understand the message. But one thing was distracting him. How had this message come onto his lap, and what did it mean? What did it mean that if he misusses it, he would be punished for eternity? But one thing was for sure, he knew he had to do something about the message. By himself.

Finally, he decided to go to his mother, as all children do when they need comfort or help. He found that she was not in her room, or whiling away the hours in her rose garden as she often did. His mother was a very distant woman, who did more thinking than speaking, and mor dreaming than seeing reality. All the same, the little boy loved his mother dearly and could not bear not finding her, so he read the note again. "Maybe," he thought" maybe this path leads to my mother!" He was not the most brilliant child, but his last thought turned out to be worth while, for as he reached the end of the path, he saw his mother looking into his eyes the moment he reached the little house. He gave her the note.

The women decided to ignore the note but as the day pushed forward, she couldn't take her mind of the note. Finally, before retiring to bed, she decided to look at the note one more time. But when she read it again, she saw that something had changed.

The note had become more urging. Yet, a question still crept it's way into her mind. What did it mean that if she missuses it she would be punished for eternity?//