It was black and had three colored dots on it. One was red, one was blue and one green. At the time I had many plushtoys, in fact so many that one day my mum decided that some of them had to go so I could sleep properly again.

And so she secretly put the horse and some of the other plushtoys away,assuming I would not realise that it was missing.

But I did.

One day I asked her where my three-dotted horse was and she told me it was in the laundry. So a little boy kept waiting for his horse that would never come back.

Palomino was gone.