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The fox who borrowed the stars
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Every night, Pip the fox borrowed one star from the sky to light her den. She never gave one back.
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By winter she had a hundred stars, and the sky above the forest had gone completely dark.
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The owls got lost. The moths flew in circles. The baby rabbits were too scared to sleep.
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Pip looked at her glowing den, then at the empty sky, and her ears went hot.
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So she carried every star to the tallest hill and threw them back, one by one, all night long.
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Her den was dark again. But when she looked up, the whole forest was looking up with her.
