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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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