And the reason Man Man recognized this as a mimosa...
Was because Man Man had touched one.
Man Man reached out to touch every green plant that might have been a mimosa.
After each one failed to react, Man Man began to wonder...
Had the child been right?
Mimosa...
Did it really fold up automatically when touched?
Then...
In a flower shop, after they'd stopped hoping, they finally found one.
Seeing the leaves curl up quickly at their touch, Man Man's eyes widened.
Then delight spilled from Man Man's eyes.
Mimosa!
They'd found a mimosa!
This was the mimosa the child had told them about!
The child had been right...
Mimosa really did...
They reached out again and touched the mimosa's leaves.
The leaves immediately curled up.
They curled up when touched.
Man Man couldn't help spinning around in place a few times.
Then they happily played with it for a long while.
They kept touching the mimosa, watching its leaves curl up.
If the mimosa could talk, it would probably have yelled at them: Enough already!
The lights in the shop went out.
The staff were getting ready to leave.
Man Man jolted.
They turned around.
They saw the shop assistant locking the door.
They tilted their heads.
They picked up the mimosa and were just about to fly away when something occurred to them...
They set the mimosa down.
They flew out through the window above the flower shop's restroom.
They soared into the sky.
Their figures soon became a shooting star and disappeared into the distance.
After an unknown amount of time, Man Man returned.
They each held a beautiful bouquet in their beaks.
Man Man returned to the flower shop.
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