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Submitted to Contest #16
Once upon a time, a bird fell in love with a balloon. Now, while this sounds like it would be a funny story, it isn’t. This is a sad story - at least at first. Unrequited love is always sad... He was a very handsome bird, with glossy black feathers and bright black eyes, and he had a charming way of flitting the tips of his wings when he landed on a tree branch that made all of the lady birds sigh. He knew that he was a very special bird with a fantastic future ahead of him, full of grand adventures and heroic deeds; a bird as han...
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