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Hector the Mouse lived in Mouse Town. Every day he woke up early in the morning, travelled to work spending a lot of time on waiting in traffic jams. After the all-day work he was coming home exhausted, but in the evening he couldn’t sleep because he was too tired and too unhappy and the city was too noisy even in the night.

Hector worked in a cheese factory. He liked his work but was very sad because the job in the city made him very unhappy. Although a lot of mice lived in the city, Hector was very lonely. For him, there was no time to make the connections, nor in his sight was any she-mouse to dream about. Every morning he woke up alone and every evening he came back to his empty flat.

One night laying awake in his bed Hector understood he was not happy and decided to change his life. The next morning he packed his bags, sit in his car and left the town. Driving his car he arrived in a little town were everybody was waving cheerfully to him. Seemed it was the place to start a new life. He began to work in a village’s little cheese factory led by a she- mouse Leoplodina. For Hector, there were no more lost hours on his way to work or back home.

He had far more time for himself and for his new friends. Leopoldina and he together started to produce cheeses that became famous far and wide. Every day Leopoldina and he grew closer and closer until one day they found themselves in love. And so Hector found a job making him happy, acquired the friends and met his love. He was not alone anymore and the sad mouse was transformed into the merriest, the happiest mouse in the world.