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here was once a little grey planet that was very sad. The people living there hadn't looked after
it, despite them having all the inventions and space ships you could ever need. They had
contaminated the whole countryside so much with rubbish and pollution that there were no plants or
animals left. One day, a little boy was walking on the planet, when he passed a cave and noticed a small red
flower inside. The flower was very sick - almost dying - so the boy carefully dug up the flower, with roots, soil and
everything. Then, he started looking for a place where he could look after it. He searched all over the planet, but
everywhere was so contaminated that there was no place the flower could possibly live in. Then he looked up at
the sky and noticed the moon. It seemed to the boy that maybe the plant could survive there.
So the little boy put on his astronaut suit, and climbed into a space ship. He put the little red flower in the back,
and off they went to the moon.
Far away from all that pollution - and with the boy visiting it every day to tend it - the flower started to grow. The
flower was so well cared for, that it had soon germinated, giving birth to others, and these other flowers spread
onto other flowers. Before long, the whole moon was completely covered with flowers.
That's why, whenever the little boy's flowers open up, for a few minutes the moon takes on a soft red sheen, like
a warning light. Maybe it's telling us that if you don't look after your planet, a day will come when flowers will only
be able to grow on the moon.
Let’s clean up our environment . let’s clean up our bodies, but
most importantly , let’s not permit our babies of the future to be
polluted before they are eve born…………
Louise Slaughter
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