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			While I was staring at my dear Fango, sleeping peacefully near me, I wondered what was happening to him in the land of Nod ... Fortunately, Fango is so close to me that he accepted to relate.
		Once upon a time there was a Wonderland that could be reached only during slumbers by the only ones who own the key to knowledge. Fango had just nodded off that he found himself among a galaxy of dazzling flowers. Each of them seemed to keep a star shut up inside their corollas. Fango marveled so much that he was at a loss. But suddenly he heard a voice : "- Honour where honour is due ! For a aught I know, you're with us for the first time, so welcome to the kingdom of all flowers ! - I'm just a lowly dog, why did you invite me inside your paradise for flowers ? - Only nobleminded ones could turn our loveliness into loving kindness and spread it over the earth and inside the hearts of hearts. - I wonder what I ought to be doing ... - When lore dawn on you, you'll never be haunted by such questions anymore ! You will understand in due course. Practice makes perfect, just have a go ! Then you'll get in the harvest. -I'm just a lowly dog, I'm just a loving dog, how could I ... ? - Don't you know, tiny tot, that dealing gently with anyone is the only thing that you have to do ? Give love all around you and you will yield the fruits of the Heaven. Spread benevolence all around you and spite will slip your mind. - I promise I will try. May I stay with you for a long stretch of time ... - Keep a flower deep inside your soul and we will still live inside of you. Remember the land of flowers when you return to the earth !" 06/06/07 Isabelle Coquinot