In this task, you're given the beginning and the ending of a three-part story. Your job is to complete the short story by writing a middle sentence that seamlessly connects  the first and last sentence. Generated sentences must be short, have fewer than 10 words, and be simple as if narrating to a child. Avoid using any irrelevant extra information when creating the middle sentence, and use names (e.g. Jack, Barbara,...) instead of pronouns (e.g. he / she) wherever possible.

Beginning: Monty the cat had a large growth removed from his face. Ending: The cat lived several more years before the tumor returned.
Monty was a happy cat.

Beginning: Stuart enjoys keeping mice in his basement. Ending: They find the mice to be cute and cuddly.
Stuart invites his friends over to look at them.

Beginning: I was raking the leaves in my front lawn with an old rake. Ending: I took out tape and was able to fix the rake to finish the job.

Halfway thru raking the rake snapped in half.

