Once upon a time there was a girl with blue eyes. She was the only one new in the town. She was alien to everyone. She lived with her grandmother after her father's catastrophic death. She never left the house. She saw kids playing with joyful moods, jumping and skipping; skipping was her favorite pass time, but she never went out those days. Her grandmother always told her to go out and enjoy the heat of the sun, enjoy with children and make new friends, but she kept quiet and never said a word, and never left her chair. She just glued herself with that chair until one morning when she was sleeping, some exiled butterfly flew across her cheek, and she blushed. She was near a window where some butterflies were still waiting to enter. They were coming inside the room one by one in a long line. They flew across and kissed her cheek one by one. They went outside and whispered to their friends to come and look at a pretty girl they had seen. So all birds, butterflies and dragonflies came to greet her, but she was still asleep like an angel. A fairy with no wings but a cute smile. Then she opened her eyes, and smiled as she looked outside. There was fog and rain but also a rainbow. All those things felt something near to Paradise to her. She opened the door and went outside...

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