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The Nightingale and the Swallow

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　The Swallow said to the nightingale,

“Why don’t you make a nest on an edge of an eave and befriend humans like me?

　Come with me.”

　The Nightingale replied

“Long time ago, humans did cruel things to me, and I cannot forget them.

　I don’t want to live in a place where I remember my own suffering.

　That is why I live in a lonely place where humans will never come.


　This story says that people do not like to visit the scene of their past suffering.

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