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The giant glanced over to Bonnie, ever so slightly. So slightl)j in fact, you
might not have noticed, but his tears did slow and the waterfalls, which were
never so big to begin with, became just a little bit smaller.

Now you have to wait a bit. Because Bonnie's journey took her a few years.
Yes, years.

Bonnie knew that if she returned to the village, she would get into big
trouble. She also knew she would be very sad for, perhaps, the rest of her life.
"Might as well QUt me at the top of the mountain so I could help the giant
make the waterfalls," she said aloud to hersel£

So for years and years, she walked the mountaintops looking for the begin-
nings of other waterfalls hoping to find another giant.

She got hungry some days, but would soon find someone to give her a little
food. She got cold some days, but would soon find someone to let her stay in
his or her liouse for a while and get warm. And when she got lonel)j all she
had to do was think about the g1ant. The giant who cried from loneliness for
so many years that even The 01mal grew o1d underneath the giant's tears.

And then one day she found a pair of waterfalls running down a mountain
that was so tall the clouds covered its top. She followea the waterfalls past a
number of small villages, through the clouds, and to a large person-shaped
rock at the very top. It was, of course, another giant.

This time, Bonnie was not at all afraid. And she didn't care how many people
in the villages below made money from this giant's tears. She climbed onto
one of her shoulders, (~es, her shoulders since this giant was a female) and said,
quite matter-of-factly; 'There is another. At least one. Maybe more."

The giant looked over at Bonnie and she was a combination of sad, angry; and
just the tiniest bit hopeful. In a rumbly; thunder-like voice, she asked,
]\nother giant?"

"Yes," explained Bonnie. ']\!so crying waterfalls."

Immediate!~ the female giant stopped crying. She gently picked Bonnie up
and asked, 'Will you take me to, to-?"

"-him," finished Bonnie. "Of course. That's why I came."