by Colleen Ranney

Created on: July 18, 2008

Can you believe it I kissed him! Come with me to a place of magic where I fell in love.

May I remove a veil for a moment to reveal to you a beautiful garden with pools of water shining towards us millions of diamonds? The sun is warm and welcoming and as we step out of the shadows into this garden we see before us a stairway. There are many steps but as we look upward to the top we feel a deep desire to climb them. Our steps are uncounted for along the way the flowers graze past our legs and we enjoy how they feel tickling our skin. They are soft and they create a feeling in us that we just need more and more, and so we continue walking. Our legs feel heavenly! We see the last couple of steps and almost wish to return back down just to feel the caress of these flowers again. But as we turn to look behind us the stairway is gone, the flowers have disappeared and we cling on the edge of falling. We hurriedly climb the last remaining step as not to fall.

We have reached the top and before us is a sandbox filled with sand. We see a beautiful sand castle and there sitting in the sand is a little boy. He has built it and has taken such a long time to sculpt the edges. This is his creation, his kingdom and we feel great honor to stand in the presence of such an adorable little prince. He wants so badly to be a KING one day. We feel his desires like they are our very own and we want the same..

Suddenly across the way a little girl dressed in blue comes running across the vast greenness. We watch as the little boy stands abruptly. She is screaming at the little boy. Who told you, you could play in this sandbox she shouts. This sandbox is for girls NOT BOYS. The little boy hangs his head and begins to explain he only came to build a beautiful castle so when the girls returned they could see it and would wonder after whose hands had build it. But the little girl would not listen, and as she reached him and caught a glimpse of the castle she uttered. "YOU DIDN'T BUILD THIS" You are lying. The boy hung his head and sighed as he began to walk away.

The sky above began to cloud over and the sound of thunder rumbled across the sky. We watched the little girl march over to the castle and with her feet trampled it until it was flattened. Every part of our hearts ached for the little boy who walked silently with his head down.so we followed him.

He walked in the direction of the stairway we came from. He reached the top of the stairs wondering why did she not understand, what had

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