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How exciting! She hadn’t been expecting anything

from outside the house. She looked around eagerly for
the mysterious phantom who must’ve delivered it, but
whoever they were, they seemed to have entirely vanished.

So instead, she pulled the envelope from beneath the
ribbon and took out the card. It featured an etching of
a striped hot-air balloon hovering over a red-and-white
striped circus tent. On the back of the card in the same

scrawling handwriting as on the envelope, a poem was
written:

Dear Lily,

We have a simple question, and it’s one that’s
not a trick:
Some of us are wondering what it is that

makes you tick?
Two clues may solve our riddle, if we may

be so bold –
One is something spanking new, and the other
something old!

We hope that you enjoy both gifts and dearly
want to say:

We wish you many happy returns on this, your
fourteenth birthday!

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