The Day Time Stood Still

The Day Time Stood Still
(for Sierra)

    Once upon a time, in a town very much like yours, there lived a little girl. The little girl was very much like other little girls. She lived in a house very much like yours, with a bedroom very much like yours and had a mommy and a daddy that loved her, just like yours do. From the earliest time that she could remember, the little girl loved to dance. She would go to ballet class and watch the older girls dance. As she watched them twirling and stepping gracefully, she would think that they were the most beautiful people that she had ever seen. The little girl wanted nothing more than to be just like them when she was older.
    At the little girl’s very first ballet recital she was still too little to dance, but the older girls asked her to be a part of their performance anyway. She dressed up in a little ballerina tutu, and went on stage after every dance to present the ballerinas with flowers. The little girl was so excited when she watched the girls dancing that her mommy had to hold her back from running onto the stage to join them! All the older girls said that the little girl sure loved to dance.
    The little girl danced and danced, and watched and watched. She danced with all her heart when she danced, and she looked at the older ballerinas adoringly when she watched. Every time she watched them dance she would think about how she would love to be just like them, so beautiful and graceful.
    The years went by just like this, until the little girl was older, and was becoming very beautiful and graceful herself. She still danced and danced, and she still watched the older ballerinas. As she watched them twirling and stepping she would think about how beautiful they looked, and how she wanted nothing more than to be just like them someday. But now, instead of just dreaming, she would go and dance. She would dance with all her heart, and practice the techniques that the older ballerinas made look so easy.
    One day, the little girl’s mommy and daddy came home with some exciting news. The little girl was going to be a big sister! Nine months later the baby came home, and the little girl had a brand new baby sister. The little girl loved her baby sister with all her heart, and became a wonderful big sister. The baby girl loved her big sister right back. When the little girl danced in their house, the baby girl would watch; her eyes wide in adoration. She would watch her big sister twirling and stepping, and think that she was the most beautiful person in the world. While the little girl danced, her mommy or daddy would hold the baby girl while she kicked and waved her arms, trying to dance just like her big sister. One day, while the little girl danced, and the baby girl watched, her mommy and daddy realized that the little girl wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was the ballerina that she had dreamed of becoming for all those years, with her own little girl to look up to her. And they were so very proud.
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