Once upon a time there was a bean named Renata who lived in a bowl of rice and other beans and was cooked up fat and soft for a boy, Horito, who, playing with his food, picked her out and flicked her with his finger out the window. She fell through the air landing on the stomach of a baby in a stroller, who also failed to eat her but perched her on his nose. His mama knelt down to remove Renata, but the bean remonstrated loudly that no one was eating her, just playing with her, and that she wanted to be eaten to make someone’s tummy feel really good. The mama was astounded that this bean was talking to her, let alone mounting a complaint, so she sold Renata to the circus, where Renata spent much time to great acclaim doing tricks for audiences, walking tightropes, riding bikes etc, but was ultimately very unhappy, because all she really wanted was to be eaten. So she ran away from the circus, found her way to the subway, rode beside an old man’s sleeping shoe all the way back home to Horito’s house. In the kitchen she made her way back up to the shelf and was re-cooked with some other beans and rice and ended up once again on Horito’s plate. This time when he raised her up on his fork she sternly told shouted to him, insisting that he eat her to make his tummy feel really good. He smiled a wide smile and did. Down in his stomach Renata was so happy she started to dance, and that made Horito dance too. And when he went to school his dancing got all the other kids dancing, and they all lived happily ever after.