The Little Girl and the Balloon
A little girl found a balloon lying in the street, and she cried and ran all the way home.
But Annie, what’s wrong? said the girl’s mother. It was just a balloon, just a balloon.
But Annie couldn’t say what the problem was; or if she could, she just wouldn’t say.
That night the mother had a terrible dream. In the dream, Annie was a balloon. She floated up out of her bed and through the open window and away across the sky toward the moon.
Come back! yelled the mother. Come back, Annie!
But Annie didn’t come back, she went on.
The next day the mother did not let Annie go out.
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