Masami Hisamoto was so excited! 
   Her "big" day had finally arrived! 
   She had reminded everyone in Tokyo
   about her birthday on March 18th,
   for a long time. Masami had not
   wanted a single person to forget
   this special day. Today she was 8. 

　It seemed to Masami that her
   dreams always atarted out the same
   way. She would be sitting in the
   middle of an enormous room all
   dressed up for her party. Beside
   her was a key ring with 10 magic
   keys, each a different color.
   Around her would be doors, and
   Masami knew that the keys were
   there to open those matching,
   colored doors.  

   In her dreams, Masami liked to
   start with the blue key that
   unlocked the blue door. The blue
   room looked as if it held a billion
   bouncing balloons. There were
   balloons of different shapes, colors
   and sizes, and Masami had fun
   walking through them. There was one
   balloon that had to be the biggest,
   bluest balloon she had ever seen.
   This was so much fun, Masami raced
   on to the next door! 

   When Masami opened the cherry red
   door, she almost fell backward!
   What a fun dream! In front of her
   was a monstrous mountain of melting
   ice cream. There were cherries,
   nuts, whipped cream and syrup
   running  down the sides. Masami
   thought it would be so much fun to
   slide down this kind of mountain.
   What a delightful, delicious time
   she would have! 

   The green room had so many presents
   that Masami had trouble opening
   the door. She wondered if any of
   the gifts were from Kaoru. She was
   hoping that one of those boxes
   would have something very nice she
   could play with on her birthday.
   Maybe it was the gigantic green
   gift box! Should she open it? No,
   she must hurry to the next door. 

   A pink door opened up into a candy
   room. Masami was amazed at all the
   candy. She found suckers, gumdrops,
   lollipops, peppermint sticks, hard
   candies, soft candies and all kinds of
   chocolate candies. There was also the
   biggest, bubbliest bunch of pink bubble
   gum that she had ever seen. Masami
   knew that she would have to share this
   candy with Kaoru or she would have a
   big tummyache. 

   When Masami opened the yellow
   door, she found a yellow room
   filled with games fit for a king.
   Masami saw pin the tail on the
   donkey, a fishing pond, balloons
   for water fights, jacks, musical
   chairs, drop the clothespin in the
   bottle, bobbing for yellow apples,
   hopscotch and ring toss. Masami
   knew exactly which games she would
   play first in the yellow room. 

   Masami found herself in front of the
   last door that had no key. She
   leaned against the door to peek
   through the keyhole and, as she did,
   the door silently opened. She looked
   inside. The rainbow-colored room was
   ready for a birthday party with
   something from each of the other ten
   rooms, but Masami was puzzled.
   Something was missing! How could a
   birthday party be fun if you were all
   alone? She became very sad. 

                     Happy Birthday!
                 Masami Hisamoto

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