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"On a summer afternoon, Tsukiko and her former high school teacher have prepared and eaten somen noodles together. 'Tell me a story from long ago, ' Sensei says. 'I wasn't alive long ago, ' Tsukiko says, 'but should I tell you a story from when I was little?' 'Please do, ' Sensei replies, and so Tsukiko tells him that, when she was a child, she awakened one day to find something with a pale red face and something with a dark red face in her room,...
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"Había una vez una pareja de campesinos que no tenía hijos. Todos los días, se alentaban cantando: 'Queremos un hijo nuestro, aunque sea chiquitín. Lo amaremos pequeño, pequeñito, pequeñín...' Su deseo se cumplió. Al niño lo llamaron Issun Bôshi."--
This classic Japanese fairy tale tells the story of Issun Boshi, the tiny son of an old, long childless couple. He is tested in several adventures and handles himself so bravely that, in the...