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Stories We Read: The King And The Stonecutter
The stories that we read was the king and the shirt and the stonecutter.
The first story teaches us that you're only as happy as you chose to be. The Kings guards went into a poor guys house but he owned nothing. You don't have to have everything to be happy. The second story was the stone cutter. The stonecutter was unhappy with who he was so he became all of these different things and it shows him that everything has a weakness. So you are really only has happy as you want to be.
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