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Once, in a little pond, in the muddy water under the lily pads, there lived a little water beetle in a community of water beetles. They lived a simple and comfortable life in the pond with few disturbances. Once in a while, sadness would come to the community when one of the fellow beetles would climb the stem of the lily and would never be seen again and they knew their friend was gone forever. Then one day, one little water beetle felt an irresistible urge to climb up that stem. However, he was determined that he would not leave forever. He would come back and tell his friends what he had found at the top. When he reached the top and climbed out of the water onto the suface of the lily pad, he was so tired, and the sun felt so warm, that he decided he must take a nap. As he slept, his body changed and when he woke up, he had turned into a beautiful blue tailed dragon-fly with broad wings and slender body designed to fly. So fly he did! as he soared he saw the beauty of a whole new world and a way of life he had never known existed. Then he remembered his beetle friends and how they were thinking by know he was gone. He wanted to go back to tell them, and explain to them that he was now more alive than he had ever been before. But his new body would not go down into the water. He could not get back to tell his friends the good news. Then he understood that their time would come, when, they too, would know what he now knew. So, he raised his wings and flew off into his joyous new life!