One warm, fine spring day, four ducklings were hatched: three were the most beautiful ducklings to have ever existed, but the fourth was...well...not very beautiful to say the least; in fact, he was the ugliest duckling ever seen in the history of the pond. Because of this, no creature ever liked him; he was an outcast, shunned from society. However, every night, his parents would read him the story about "The Ugly Duckling", …showed first 75 words of 544 total…

…showed last 75 words of 544 total…see his own reflection in the water that he waited for all these months. He flew and flew non-stop, even tough his wings hurt, until he finally arrived at the pond. At last, it was the moment he had been waiting for: to look into the clear water to see his beautiful reflection. The duck looked into the water, and saw that he had grown up to be...lo and behold...a really ugly duck...