One Puzzle Piece Short

A little girl sat down with her grandfather to play. Among all her toys, she chose a “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” puzzle to put together. One by one the little girl and her grandfather found the edge pieces, the corner pieces and ones that looked similar for the middle. Piece by piece they took turns putting the tiny fragments together until the picture was beginning to appear.

“There's Snow White!” the little girl exclaimed, and “There's Sleepy!” she continued excitedly. One by one the dwarfs appeared, and the background of the little cottages behind them took shape. Finally, the grandfather could see that there seemed to be something that was going to be a little off with this picture. There were five slots open with only four pieces of puzzle left.

The little girl found the place for one piece. It was Grumpy's clothes. She found another piece. It was the chimney upon the cottage roof. Then another piece. It was the bottom of Snow White's dress, finally the little girl discovered what her grandfather already knew, “Hey, there is two holes and only one piece left!”she exclaimed with a little frustration as she moved the final piece available in a slot that filled Sleepy's arms. She began to look around for the missing piece and asked, ”What about the last piece, Pop Pop?” “What about the last piece?” she repeated again and continued frantically, “What are we ever going to do about Dopey's ear? He has no ear. What are we going to do about Dopey's ear? Now the whole puzzle is no good because there is one piece missing,” she surmised.

The wise older grandfather quickly took out his camera phone and told the little girl to bend her ear down to the location of the missing puzzle piece. When she did, he took her picture with the puzzle, and after showing the photo to the little girl and making her smile again he said, “Honey, sometimes people are like puzzles. There is a piece or two missing, and they need someone to come along and finish the picture for them.” The little girl put her little index finger to the side of her head, tapped it slightly and said, “Some people need a lot of pictures taken, don't they Pop Pop?” “Yes they do, honey. Yes they do,” the grandfather chuckled and replied.

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