Robert Fulghum tells a wonderful story about a kindergarten class that decided to perform the story of "Cinderella." There are lots of roles in "Cinderella," but still casting was a chore. All the girls, of course, wanted to be Cinderella. Finally all the children were assigned roles except one--a small tubby kid named Norman.

The teacher asked, "Norman, what are you going to be?"

"Well," said Norman, "I think I will be the pig."

The teacher said, "Norman, there is no pig in the story of Cinderella."

And Norman said, "Well, there is now."

The teacher could tell it would be senseless to argue, so she left it to Norman to decide what role a pig played in the Cinderella story. As it turned out, the pig went everywhere that Cinderella went and did whatever Cinderella did. Norman had nothi…