In this task, you're given a story (which contains five sentences only). Your task is to find all the characters which are available in the given story.

[Q]: Sentence1: It was early December. Sentence2: My mom had been fighting cancer. Sentence3: She knew her time was near. Sentence4: She promised she would look after me in heaven. Sentence5: She died in her sleep.
[A]: I (myself), My mom

[Q]: Sentence1: Dan had a very fine cobblestone walkway. Sentence2: Some of the stones had started to jut out unevenly. Sentence3: Dan got out a shovel and leveled the dirt under them. Sentence4: He tamped them down gently to make them all match. Sentence5: Now the stones in Dan's walkway are all perfectly even.
[A]: Dan

[Q]: Sentence1: Paul wanted to be on his school's basketball team. Sentence2: But he was always short. Sentence3: He began to gain confidence after practicing. Sentence4: But taller players always outplayed him. Sentence5: Paul decided to never try out for the basketball team.
[A]:
Paul, Taller players