A gentle breeze blew, and Madeline Paperhead once again went with it. Having a paper head wasn't all bad. She heard people talk plenty about neck pain, which she simply couldn't imagine. But getting hit in the head, or like today, blown by the wind was a constant frustration.
Her peers had asked if she wanted to undergo head-hardening treatment, and she'd seen how successfully it worked for Leonard Looseleaf, but she just couldn't commit to it. This was her head, and she would bear the gifts and the burdens it brought equally.
When Madeline landed at the school playground, she realized even getting blown by the wind wasn't always a burden. Today she beat all of her classmates to school, and enjoyed some extra time to think and prepare for the day. How could she use the wind to her advantage more often?
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