Once upon a time, a beautiful baby girl was born. She was perfect in every way except for one, she had a silver screw in place of her belly button. Her parents decided that aside from their parish priest, no one must ever know of their child's abnormality.
This precious baby grew into a beautiful young girl. But she felt so alone and isolated because of her deformity. Her parents would never allow her to go to slumber or pool parties, for fear that their dark secret would be discovered.
One day, during her confessional audience with the parish priest, she told him of her sadness. that she wished she could be just like all the other young girls.
The parish priest replied to her that God gave her a silver screw for a reason. If she truly felt as she said, then she must find a private secluded place to pray to God and ask him to help her.
Upon arriving back home, the young girl quickly changed, then went for a bike ride in search of a secluded place to pray. She found a beautiful spot along the river. There was a majestic silver birch tree on a small hill that overlooked the river. She quickly got off her bike and sat under the tree canopy and began to pray for God's help.
For many years, the girl returned to the same spot, hoping that God would hear her prayer, but nothing happened.
On the day of her 18th birthday, she once again returned to the silver oak. She kneeled under the tree and looked up to the heavens.
"Please Lord, I have prayed to you for many years. Please help me to be a normal young women. No man will want to marry me because of this silver screw. Please help me."
The young girl sat under the tree for a while and quickly fell into a deep sleep.
Suddenly, two large silver clouds appeared in the sky and came together. From the silver clouds came a silver ladder. On the silver ladder was a silver angel. In the silver angel's hand was a silver screw driver.
The silver angel descended from the silver ladder a walked over to the girl, who was still fast asleep. Gently, the angel lifted the girl's shirt just enough to see the silver screw. Then with the silver screw driver, the silver angel removed the screw. Quietly, she whispered into the girl's ear, "God has heard your prayers my child." The silver angel then got up and walked back to the ladder and stepped up onto the first rung. The silver ladder then ascended back up into the silver clouds, where it disappeared. The silver clouds then separated and vanished.
The young girl slowly started to awaken. " I must have been dreaming. I could have sworn I heard someone speaking to me.
Looking at her watch, she realized how long she had been gone, then noticed her shirt was slightly raised. As she proceeded to adjust her shirt, she quickly saw that the silver screw was gone! She had a belly button!! " Thank you God!" she yelled out to the sky.
Laughing, the girl jumped up for joy and her a$$ fell off!
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