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To Midora Firebaugh

Your life story touched my heart

They give just the right amount of light so children are not afraid of the dark.

Stars are in the sky to watch over children at night.

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They light the way along paths and trees. Sometimes they come closer when they are curious. Sometimes they play - right outside your window!

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One little Star is very curious. She watches from the clouds above.She loves to go down to play among the children.

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But she is a clumsy little Star, and like all stars, she has sharp edges. She loves to kiss the children, but sometimes, in her playful excitement, her sharp edges accidentally make a little cut instead. So the clouds must keep a close watch over her.

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One day Star sawa young peasant woman.

She was the most beautiful woman in Korea.

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Star listens as the young couple talk. Their baby will soon be born. The mother is happy but she is crying.

“What is wrong?” asks the father. “I love you very much”, he says. “My most precious dream is for our baby to be happy.”

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But the young man lives in away.

He is an obedient son, and his parents cannot allow him to marry a simple peasant girl.

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“Because we cannot marry, we cannot keep our baby.” the woman says sadly.

The father hugs the young woman. “I am sorry.” he says.

The peasant woman’s tears float away in the water and evaporate into the air with the morning dew.

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The woman’s tears and the man’s dreams float softly upward in a rainbow. They are kept safe inside the cloud that Star is in.

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Star listens to the couple and is overcome with emotion by their love and hopes for the new baby.

Star wants to kiss the baby the moment she is born!

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It is nighttime. The clouds cover the stars like bedtime blankets, and float far across the skies. The stars are blinking and asleep.

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But one curious little Star is awake, peeking out of her cloud, watching. It is our clumsy little Star!

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She listens to another couple, far below in America. I want a child in our family,” says the pretty young woman, “...a child kissed by a Star.”

“That is my dream, too,” the young man says gently.

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The man hugs his wife. It is a happy day, butshe is also crying.

“Maybe there is a child for us to adopt, a child kissed by a Star.” he says. Do Not Duplicate

Her tears float softly up into a cloud. The tears and dreams of the couple in America and the couple in Korea are together in this same cloud...

the very cloud that little Star is in!

what she wants most of all is to kiss

the new baby born in Korea.

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Little Star twinkles above them,

for she knows that in all the world,

That night, the peasant woman in Korea gives birth to abeautiful baby girl.

There is much happiness among the clouds and stars when they hear of the new baby’s birth.

They make rainbows to celebrate her birthday.

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Our clumsy little Star bounces out of her cloud to kiss the baby, forgetting about her sharp edges.

In her excitement, she accidentally cuts the baby’s little red lip with her kiss.

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The clouds are ever-watchful of Star. They sweep in close to fixthe baby’s cut lip. They are determined because the clouds are holding the dreams of the

fathers.

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One cloud takes a fine thread from her hair. It is spun from the two mothers’ tears.The thread is very strong

because of the mothers’ love for this baby.

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The cloud very carefully sews the cut lip of the baby with the fine thread. Now the lip will have only a small scar, and not a deep cut.

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The baby girl will have the best possible life becauseof the hopes and dreams of the parents brought together by the kiss of our clumsy little Star!

And so it is fate: The baby girl is adopted and goes to live with the parents in America.

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She will have a happy life because she was kissed by a Star. She has the blessings of both fathers' dreams, sewn together by the strength ofof two mothers’ tears, watched over by one joyful clumsy little Star.

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