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            "My Birthday Surprise"
           was created especially for

                Masami Hisamoto

                   with love from
               Mommy and Daddy
                  march 18, 2007

   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.

   For months now, Masami had been
   dreaming day and night about her
   party. She had asked her friends
   again and again. "Do you suppose my
   birthday will ever get here?" There
   were many names on her invitation
   list. Masami hoped Kaoru could
   come. She was really looking
   forward to a great time!

　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 each dream, Masami would find
many happy, wonderful surprises
behind the locked doors... except
for one. There were 11 doors, but
only 10 keys. Masami wondered how
she would get into that last room.
There wasn't even a knob on the
door. Every time she would start to
search for the missing key, she
would wake up. Oh well! Mayby
Kaoru could help her.

   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!

The second door opened up to a white
room with lots and lots of birthday
cakes. There were tiny cakes and
gigantic cakes and cakes just big
enough for Masami to eat all by
herself. Some cakes were huge, but
there was one snowy white cake
behind the white door that had 7
huge layers. It was a cake for
Masami. She wanted to show all
these beautiful cakes to Kaoru.

   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!

   Masami giggled when she opened the
   orange door to the clown room.
   Inside she found forty funny clowns,
   most of them with bright orange
   hair. There were fat clowns and
   thin clowns, short clowns and tall
   clowns, happy clowns and sad clowns.
   Some clowns did tricks while other
   silly clowns just clowned around. In
   this orange room, Masami laughed
   until she could laugh no more.

   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.

Masami jumped up and down when she
opened the glittering gold door and
found a golden room full of rides
for her birthday party. In the
middle of the room was a beautiful
gold merry-go-round. Surrounding
it, Masami could see the ponies
with their golden saddles, a train
ride and even a small ferris wheel!

   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.

   Behind the brown door were many,
   many huggable animals. Masami
   wanted to hold and squeeze the soft,
   cuddly brown teddy bears, as well as
   the cats, dogs, monkeys and
   dinosaurs. Some of the other
   animals, like the giraffe, were
   taller than Masami. Others were so
   small they would fit in her hand.
   If she put all these animals in her
   room, she might not be able to find
   her bed. Wow, that would be neat!

   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.

   Using the shiny silver key, Masami
   opened the silver door and saw
   colorful streamers decorating every
   inch of the tenth room. She also
   found everything else she needed for
   her birthday party. Here were the
   plates, cups, napkins, forks and
   spoons. For her guests, there were
   stacks and stacks of silver whistles,
   silver bells, horns, blowers,
   birthday hats and other party favors.
   She knew that she was ready for her
   birthday party when she saw the
   squirt guns!

   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.

Suddenly many voices sang out
"Surprise!" and "Happy Birthday!" at
the same time. Masami Hisamoto
blinked her eyes and immediately
stopped daydreaming. She turned
around and saw Kaoru. This was her
best birthday surprise of all! Now
she knew that having family and
friends was much more important than
all the presents and decorations or
even the cake. Oh, it was fun to be
8 and have a birthday celebration!

                     Happy Birthday!
                Masami Hisamoto

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this birthday:

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