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              There's a town in Italy called Pompeii. It stands near a volcano. In 79 AD 2 the volcano erupted and it destroyed a town and killed nearly all the people who lived there.

 One day a young prince arrived at the castle of King Ottar and fell in love with the king's youngest daughter, who was very beautiful. You can only marry my daughter, said the king, if you can recognize her, and you must marry the women you choose. That's easy, said the prince and King Ottar put all his daughters behind a wall that had a space at the bottom, so the  prince could only see seven pairs of feet, and the feet all looked the same. Suddenly, one of the feet moved and so the prince said that is the woman I love.
    Unfortunately, it was not; it was King Ottar's eldest daughter who was not at all beautiful, but the prince had to marry her. In fact, she was extremely intelligent and had a good sense of humour, so that very soon the prince did fall in love with her and they lived happily ever after. The moral of this story is that love is a very unreliable thing.

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