There once was a girl made of paper. She wrote all of her tiny dreams inside, then folded herself, over and over, until she looked just like a bird.
A cat strolling by noticed her. He was about to eat her for breakfast when, strangely, something changed his mind. So he began, instead, to unfold her. First by her wings, then by what little was left.
That is when the cat realized that she was not a bird but in fact, a paper girl.
Looking over what covered her inside, the cat stood, puzzled. "Why have you scribbled all over yourself?"
"Because there was no place else for me to write," said the girl.
"Oh, I see," said the cat. But he did not, really.
"And why did you fold yourself into a bird?" asked the cat. "I nearly ate you alive, you know."
"Yes, that is the dream I wrote about here," said the girl quietly, pointing to her heart.
"What!" cried the cat. "To be eaten?"
"No," she whispered. "To be noticed."
From then on, the cat never ate another bird, because they reminded him too much of the paper girl who risked her life dreaming to be noticed.
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