There once lived a girl named Lily. Lily really loved her name and liked lilies to. When she started school a girl in her class said Lily’s name was boring and that she should have a beautiful name like hers, and the girls name was Abigail. Her friends agreed that Lily should have a better name.  After school she told her mom about Abigail. Her mom, Marie agreed that Abigail was mean and told Lily to stand up for herself. Abigail came to her again during morning recess. She told her that being named by a flower was babyish and was not pretty. Lily got really mad but did not tell the teacher. Her mom made her favourite dinner to cheer her up when she got home. One day, when it was raining the kids had music lessons. During Lily’s favourite song, When The Lilies Dance Abigail whispered you’re a baby just like you’re name. When Abigail said this Lily got really mad and yelled “There is nothing wrong with me or my name!!” This made the teacher, Miss. Star run over and asks what was going. So Lily told the whole story. Miss. Star told Lily there was nothing to be worried about because her first name was Rose and she was going to name her baby after a flower that is going to be born on your birthday, Lily. I was going to announce this later but I would like you to help me decide which name is better Lilly or Dandelion? They all chose Lilly which was close to Lily. After that no matter what Lily loved herself and everybody else. (Until Victor came along, he was freaky.)

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