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’“What’s wrong?” Momma (okasan) asked.’<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s a monster in the lotus! See!” Quinlan pointed.<br />
Momma looked at the giant lotus leaves and flowers, but<br />
she saw no monster.<br />
Finally she asked, “Quinlan, are you sure you didn’t<br />
imagine a monster?” Quinlan sighed. That’s what grownups<br />
always thought.<br />
As she bicycled away from the lotus field, she spotted two<br />
tiger-fish (shachi) sitting on a blue tiled farmhouse roof and<br />
thought, “Those fish things are monsters. <strong>The</strong>y swim on<br />
tiles that look like water, and nobody says they aren’t real!”
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