"Remind me why I'm doing this again?" I asked my sister as I folded the paper.

"Because you love me."

"Right," I rolled my eyes as I finished the fold. "Done."

I showed my handiwork.

"That's suppose to be a paper crane?" My sister questioned. "It looks like a crane that has been run over by a steam roller."

"I tried," I said as I added it to the tiny flock of paper cranes we had be making for the past half an hour. "Again, remind me why we're doing this."

"Because, in myth, if you make a thousand paper...