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Submitted to Contest #16
Once upon a time, in a faraway land near a forest, lived a boy called Edwin, and his mother. They had lived there for all their lives, and they had never gone into the forest. When he was a child, Edwin often asked his mother why they never went there. “Surely,” he said, “there are fruits and things to be had?” But his mother said the same thing each time he asked: “It is forbidden.” When he got to be a bit older, Edwin often liked to go play by the edge of the trees. To see what he could see inside the depths of them. He never did see much,...
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