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the painting that smiled back creativity
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changes everything in the cheerful town
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of Colorville a curious little girl
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named Merie went on a treasure hunt in
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her grandmother's attic there's
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something magical up there her
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grandmother had said "If you look with
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your heart the attic was full of wonders
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sold boxes pirate hats clocks and
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buttons but in the corner covered by a
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cloth was a mysterious painting on an
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old wooden easel." Mirie pulled off the
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claw hand gasped the painting showed a
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wide open meadow filled with colorful
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wild flowers and a big tree with golden
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leaves the sky looked like cotton candy
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but what made me freeze was something
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small a tiny smile in the corner of the
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painting did that tree just smile she
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whispered and then the smile grew mary's
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eyes went wide hello can you hear me a
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soft breeze fluttered through the attic
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even though the window was shut then a
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warm crackly voice said "Yes I've been
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waiting for someone like you." Mary
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couldn't believe it the tree in the
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painting was talking "i was painted long
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ago by someone full of imagination," the
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tree said "but over time people stopped
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noticing i started to fade." "But you
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beamed "can I add something to your
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world?" "With all my branches," the tree
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replied creativity brings me to life
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mary dashed downstairs for her
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watercolor paints glitter glue and
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stickers her favorite ones had cats on
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rocket ships she painted butterflies in
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the sky added a rainbow waterfall and a
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little swing on the tree as she painted
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the whole canvas shimmerred the
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butterflies began to flutter the swing
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moved in the breeze a bunny peeked from
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behind the tree the painting had come
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alive from then on Merie visited the
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attic every day she added new surprises
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bubble-blowing giraffes clouds shaped
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like music notes and stardust from a
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tiny moon rocket and she wasn't
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alone soon other kids came to see the
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magical painting some drew some painted
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some danced every bit of their
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creativity made the painting more alive
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more joyful more smiley you've brought
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me back the tree told Mary one day
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creativity changes everything it brings
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light to forgotten places and joy to
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quiet hearts merie nodded she had
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learned something wonderful when you let
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your imagination shine even something
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old and faded can come back to life and
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in the attic of Colorville the painting
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that smiled back never stopped glowing
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because every child who visited left
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behind a little sparkle of their own the
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end when you create with love the world
