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          TRAVELER




             : ASHIRA TANAKIJCHUMROON     : ASHIRA TANAKIJCHUMROOM


             A happy life is what everyone   The next morning we are going on
          wants:  no  worries,  no  dangers,  no   a long journey to the unknown. I would
          nightmares, no failures. It must be a gift   love to visit the place I have never been
          from heaven, the one they gave me. My   before. My man has a soft distinctive
          life, indeed, was a perfect one. I live   smell  on  his  body  and  I  think  it
          with a man, and we always have a   represents a flower people call “rose”.
          wonderful  time  together,  with  him         He gently applies the smell on my fur,
          taking me wherever he goes. He is a   which is soft as silk and white as a
          gentleman who is very polite and   swan. He never did this to me before.
          doesn’t speak much. He was indeed a   We took the first train in the morning
          great traveler. I knew no place where   and everything was very quiet. In front
          we have never been. The one thing I   of me was an elegant steam locomotive,
          worry about is that he seems to have   breathing in the frosty air of dawn. It is
          been strange lately, and I have no idea   my first time to see such a marvelous   journey  began  and  we  travelled  a        shocking: people shouting as if it were
          what it is about. The only thing I know   sight; and it is the first time I saw a   long way, from London to Paris, from   the end of the world, boxes and crates
          now is that he is surely going to take   “train”. I have a feeling that this will         dawn to dusk. My paws chilled when   were  being  unloaded  like  crazy,
          us somewhere again! Oh, I wish there   be  my  journey  of  a  lifetime. With             the train gently glided to a halt at our       everything went in a messy way, and I
          were more places to visit other than   excitement and joy, I got into the warm   destination. We got out of the carriage   could see that workers had a promise
          where I knew about.           carriage with my man following me. The      and  everything,  everything,  was       to keep - to get the job done on time.
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