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A Cat and a Mouse
Once there were
______ (1) cat and ______ (2) mouse who were very much in love
with each other.
One day, ______ (3)
cat went down on his knees and proposed to ______ (4) mouse.
______ (5) mouse accepted ______ (6) proposal and ______ (7)
lovers decided to inform their families.
When ______ (8) mouse
told her family about ______ (9) plan, her mother was aghast and
said, "My dear girl, you can't possibly marry ______ (10) cat !
______ (11) cat is our enemy."
When ______ (12) cat
announced ______ (13) marriage to his family, they were
terrified. ______ (14) cat's father pulled him aside and said,
"Son, you can't marry ______ (15) mouse. It is against our
tradition."
Since both of them
did not want to disappoint their families, they decided to go
their separate ways and pursue their own interests. ______ (16)
cat, who was very musical, joined ______ (17) town's
philharmonic orchestra and ______ (18) mouse, who was ______
(19) good singer became ______ (20) opera singer in another
city.
As fate would have
it, ______ (21) two of them met again when ______ (22) opera
troupe of which ______ (23) mouse was ______ (24) member, was
invited to perform at ______ (25) diamond anniversary
celebration of the town's foundation day. the cat and the mouse
met up for dinner after the show. they were eager to catch up on
what they had been up to since they last saw each other.
Although the cat and
the mouse could not get married, they remained the best of
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