Long, long ago butterflies were as gray
as an old elephant and the rain was as colorful as the rainbow.
One day Butterfly was flying and she saw a big gray cloud in the
sky. She thought, "Uh -oh, it's rain". So she flew under
a nearby tree. Her mother had warned her that rain would make
her wings all soggy and she wouldn't be
able to fly. Butterfly thought for a second and wondered if her
mother was right. Well, she was going to find out. So she flew
out from under 
the tree and the rain fell on her but her wings
didn't get soggy like a squashed banana and she could still fly!
But she did feel a little heavier because
her wings were absorbing the beautiful colors from the rain.
Butterfly looked back at her wings and saw that they were colorful.
Happiness filled her heart because she wasn't a dull gra y anymore.
She was as beautiful as a rainbow.
Butterfly showed all her butterfly friends
and they asked Butterfly how she made her wings so colorful.
Butterfly said, "I flew under the raindrops and my wings
absorbed the colors from the rain."
So the next time it rained, her
butterfly friends flew under the raindrops and became colorful,
too. Since so many butterflies went under the rain, the colors
were all sucked out of the raindrops. The raindrops became clear.
And to this day butterflies remain colorful
and raindrops are clear.
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