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It was a rainy cold Sunday morning. A little  girl Anna woke up earlier than usual and as she didn't want to disturb her sleeping parents, she grabbed her favorite book, started flipping through the pages and within a few minutes she got immersed into her fantasy world. What draw her attention was a picture of a beautiful blossoming meadow. Anna wanted to be there so badly because it was neither the end of winter nor the begging of spring behind the window. She closed her eyes, imagined the spring atmosphere...and suddenly something magical happened. Nice melody, as if somebody was singing flooded the whole room. When she opened her big eyes, right in front of her was a silver flying butterfly telling her:

"Anna, I know what is your dream and I can help you. Do you still want to visit the spring meadow???"

Anna was smiling and immediately, impatiently answered: "Yes yes, dear butterfly, please take me there."

Butterfly replied: "Let's go then, girl! Just close your eyes again and say... Spring I am coming to you!"

Like he said she did and when she opened her eyes again she found herself inside of the picture, right in the middle of the beautiful meadow... She was so happy and surprised. Gentle breeze was playing with her hair, busy bees were searching for the flowers, birds were singing their melodies, sun was smiling and each flower was so colorful that she didn't know, which one she should smell. All of a sudden a little rabbit appeared in front of her.
"Hello Anna! Welcome to our meadow! I hope, you will like it here, just don't forget we have one rule... Don't hurt nor destroy anything, otherwise everything will disappear." said the rabbit.

Anna nodded and assured the rabbit that she would follow his advice.

One by one she met all the inhabitants of the meadow. The ants were telling her jokes, the bear gave her little bit of honey, the old owl guided her, everybody was so friendly. Anna enjoyed these spring moments, had great fun, however later she started missing her mom. She wanted mom to be there with her and as she missed her, she decided to pick a flower for her. She looked around and thought: "Woow, such a nice daisy! Mom will love it!"

Anna picked the flower but suddenly everything started shaking, moving upsidedown and she could just hear rabbit's angry voice screaming: "Anna, I warned you not to hurt anything and right now you have broken the rule. I am sorry but you have to leave, girl. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…"

Anna closed her eyes as this all was disturbing and felt like flying. When she opened eyes again she was sitting on her bed and the book was right in front of her. She saw the picture of the meadow she had visited but knew such things wouldn't ever repeat. The only memory that kept her believe it all happened was the daisy she was holding in her hand. She smiled and in a while heard mom calling: "Annaaaa, breakfast is on the table…"